Re: Rusty's module talk at the Kernel Summit

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-07-11T04:18:09Z

Em Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:02:44PM -0600, Cort Dougan escreveu:
> Large PTE's aren't free either, though. Cheap enough to implement but
> there's some fragmentation that isn't easy to deal with in some
> pathological cases. The virtual space is pretty tight on some archs
> already.
>
> A lot of stock distributions load most drivers as modules so a machine well
> stocked with devices may run into trouble.

yes, that is what I like about modules: for general purpose distros and also
for debugging.

- Arnaldo