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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 19:15:40 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Subject: Re: the new VMt
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009250948170.1739-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 09:49:46AM -0700
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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
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