Re: 2.2.0 wishlist

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 15 Jun 1996 12:19:18 +0100 (BST)


> Yes, there is secure_tcp_sequence_number(), but it is not used
> anywhere, and the tcp code still uses do_gettimeofday(). I guess
> it was too late before 2.0 to change that... Too bad, it would
> be another argument for NOT making the random driver optional :-).

Ted submitted stuff for it but it did not get in in time.

> is allocated so that it tries to minimize fragmentation. I am not
> an expert here, so please tell me if it totally doesn't make sense,
> but here are a few ideas (unless it is already done this way):
>
> - when allocating a single non-DMA free page, try to find one which
> has the highest physical address, to keep as much free contiguous
> low memory as possible

Put the kernel code segment above 16Mb.

Alan