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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 21:26:27 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.19pre2aa1
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On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> The result is that it exploits most of the random input, and physically
> consecutive pages are liekly to use the same cacheline in case there is
> some pattern. That looks a good algorithm to me.

Worthy of documentation, even.

Rik
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