From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com (penguin.e-mind.com [195.223.140.120]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA21325 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 13:26:26 -0500 Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:11:01 +0100 (CET) From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: tiny patch, reduces kernel memory usage (memory_save patch) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Max Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Max wrote: > This patch reduces kernel memory usage of 4kb for every 2Mb of physical RAM. > On my 16Mb box this means the kernel uses 32kb less memory, and on a typical > 64Mb Intel you save 128kb. The unused field is been killed here since the first time it's appared (when sct killed aging). Forget to remove map_nr though because it should be a win in performances and is producing cleaner code. If you can show me that it's not a win in performances I' ll produce a macro to still have clean code. Andrea Arcangeli -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org