From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>,
Ivan Stepnikov <iv@spylog.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel is unstable
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 19:30:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010301193017.E15051@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010301153935.G32484@athlon.random> <E14YXh5-0008GQ-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E14YXh5-0008GQ-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 06:20:49PM +0000
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 06:20:49PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > It's not broken, it's not there any longer as somebody dropped it between test7
> > and 2.4.2, may I ask why?
>
> Linus took it out because it was breaking things.
If it happened to be buggy it didn't looked unfixable from a design standpoint
and I think it was a very worthwhile feature, not just for memory but also to
avoid growing the size of the avl that we would have to pay later all the time
at each page fault.
Andrea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-01 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-01 9:16 Kernel is unstable Ivan Stepnikov
2001-03-01 10:27 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-03-01 14:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-03-01 14:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-03-01 18:20 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-01 18:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-03-01 19:04 ` David S. Miller
2001-03-01 20:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-03-01 19:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-02 8:23 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-03-02 8:40 ` David Howells
2001-03-02 14:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-03-02 17:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-05 23:06 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-03-01 13:39 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-03-01 14:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-03-01 17:12 ` Ingo Oeser
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2001-03-01 13:55 Heusden, Folkert van
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