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Subject: Re: de-luxe zone allocator, design 2
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To: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl>
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Hi,

On Wed, 29 Jul 1998 20:00:14 +0200 (CEST), Rik van Riel
<H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl> said:

> Isn't packing locality _very_ important on machines where you
> have no memory to spare? In that case 16k would probably be
> better; PLUS 16k will allow for real DMA buffers and stuff.

Not for short-lived packets, where you don't want to reserve a whole 16k
or more just for a single instance of an NFS packet.

--Stephen
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