From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>,
Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Optimize out pte_chain take three
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:22:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E17TMqy-0003IY-00@starship> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D2C9288.51BBE4EB@zip.com.au>
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 22:01, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Devil's advocate here. Sorry.
> > (4) enables defragmentation of physical memory
>
> Vapourware
Prediction: it will continue to be vaporware until after rmap is merged.
Meanwhile, there's no denying that fragmentation is a burning issue.
> > (5) enables cooperative offlining of memory for friendly guest instance
> > behavior in UML and/or LPAR settings
>
> Vapourware
See "enables" above. Though I agree we want the thing at parity or
better on its own merits, I don't see the point of throwing tomatoes at
the "enables" points. Recommendation: separate the list into "improves"
and "enables".
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Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-13 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-09 19:04 [PATCH] Optimize out pte_chain take two Dave McCracken
2002-07-10 0:21 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-10 14:33 ` [PATCH] Optimize out pte_chain take three Dave McCracken
2002-07-10 15:18 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-10 17:32 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-10 20:01 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-10 20:14 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-10 20:28 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-10 20:38 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-13 13:42 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-10 20:33 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-07-10 22:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-11 0:39 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-11 0:47 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-11 1:27 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-13 14:10 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-11 1:51 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-11 2:28 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-11 19:54 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-11 20:05 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-11 20:42 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-11 20:54 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-11 21:16 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-11 21:41 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-11 22:38 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-11 23:18 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-12 18:27 ` Paul Larson
2002-07-12 19:06 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-12 19:28 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-13 15:08 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-11 22:54 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-13 14:52 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-13 14:08 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-13 14:20 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-13 14:45 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-13 13:22 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2002-07-13 13:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-13 13:55 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-13 13:41 ` Daniel Phillips
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