Re: [PATCH] Recent VM fiasco - fixed

Rik van Riel
2000-05-08T19:04:55Z

On 8 May 2000, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
> Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes:
>
> > > But after few hours spent dealing with the horrible VM that is
> > > in the pre6, I'm not scared anymore. And I think that solution
> > > to all our problems with zone balancing must be very simple.
> >
> > It is. Linus is working on a conservative & simple solution
> > while I'm trying a bit more "far-out" code (active and inactive
> > list a'la BSD, etc...). We should have at least one good VM
> > subsystem within the next few weeks ;)
>
> Nice. I'm also in favour of some kind of active/inactive list
> solution (looks promising), but that is probably 2.5.x stuff.

I have it booting (against pre7-4) and it seems almost
stable ;) (with _low_ overhead)

> I would be happy to see 2.4 out ASAP. Later, when it stabilizes,
> we will have lots of fun in 2.5, that's for sure.

Of course, this has the highest priority.

regards,

Rik
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