Re: the new VMt

Andrea Arcangeli
2000-09-25T17:15:40Z

On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 09:49:46AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> [..] I
> don't think the balancing has to take the order of the allocation into
> account [..]

Why do you prefer to throw away most of the cache (potentially at fork time)
instead of freeing only the few contigous bits that we need?

Andrea