From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 12:00:13 -0800 From: Paul Jackson Subject: Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19 Message-Id: <20051103120013.093b698f.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: References: <4366C559.5090504@yahoo.com.au> <4366D469.2010202@yahoo.com.au> <20051101135651.GA8502@elte.hu> <1130854224.14475.60.camel@localhost> <20051101142959.GA9272@elte.hu> <1130856555.14475.77.camel@localhost> <20051101150142.GA10636@elte.hu> <1130858580.14475.98.camel@localhost> <20051102084946.GA3930@elte.hu> <436880B8.1050207@yahoo.com.au> <1130923969.15627.11.camel@localhost> <43688B74.20002@yahoo.com.au> <255360000.1130943722@[10.10.2.4]> <4369824E.2020407@yahoo.com.au> <306020000.1131032193@[10.10.2.4]> <1131032422.2839.8.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <309420000.1131036740@[10.10.2.4]> <311050000.1131040276@[10.10.2.4]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: mbligh@mbligh.org, mel@csn.ul.ie, arjan@infradead.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, haveblue@us.ibm.com, mingo@elte.hu, akpm@osdl.org, kravetz@us.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lhms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, arjanv@infradead.org List-ID: > We simply DO NOT CARE about some theoretical "general case", because the > general case is (a) insane and (b) impossible to cater to without > excessive complexity. The lawyers have a phrase for this: Hard cases make bad law. For us, that's bad code. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org