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Subject: Re: [RFC v3][PATCH 4/9] Memory management (dump)
From: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu>
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On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 21:54 -0400, Oren Laadan wrote:
> The length of the array may be tunable, or even adaptive (e.g. based
> on statistics from recent checkpoints), in the future.

I'm not sure "tuning" it to make those arrays longer than PAGE_SIZE will
ever be a good idea.  Seems like we should just keep the structures at
PAGE_SIZE to me.

-- Dave