Re: the new VMt

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 12:15:40 EST


On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 09:49:46AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> [..] I
> don't think the balancing has to take the order of the allocation into
> account [..]

Why do you prefer to throw away most of the cache (potentially at fork time)
instead of freeing only the few contigous bits that we need?

Andrea
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