Re: Rusty's module talk at the Kernel Summit

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 23:19:34 EST


Em Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:02:44PM -0600, Cort Dougan escreveu:
> Large PTE's aren't free either, though. Cheap enough to implement but
> there's some fragmentation that isn't easy to deal with in some
> pathological cases. The virtual space is pretty tight on some archs
> already.
>
> A lot of stock distributions load most drivers as modules so a machine well
> stocked with devices may run into trouble.

yes, that is what I like about modules: for general purpose distros and also
for debugging.

- Arnaldo
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