Re: Memory Rusting Effect [re: Linux hostile to poverty]

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 20 Jul 1998 11:05:14 +0100 (BST)

> ANK made several passes for a few months this past year trying to
> rectify this the best he could, as you note it's still a bit excessive
> with the surgery which was done. He told me at the end he was happy
> enough not to have killed the patient ;-)

Alexey did a very good job, the 2.2 and 2.0 code size for the same
feature set are basically identical. Also the infrastructure is mostly
there to support loadable ip routing algorithms. (That is the cache
stays in memory and we say default to a simple linked list, and then
you do

insmod ip_route_fibhash.o

Alan

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