Re: vm rewrite ready [Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9]

Linus Torvalds
2001-09-16T19:31:43Z

On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> as said it is quite a major change, it discards most of the the 2.4 vm
> that I don't agree with, it is basically an evolution of the classzone
> patch.

That is the wrong direction to go into.

We'll be completely screwed on NuMA with the classzone patch. I've said so
before, I'll say so again.

The basic approach of the classzone patch is _wrong_, in making global
decisions where no "globality" exists.

I bet that the improvements are from other things, not from classzone
itself. An dI will bet that if we start doing classzones, we'll regret it
a LOT in a few years.

Linus