From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from burns.conectiva (burns.conectiva [10.0.0.4]) by perninha.conectiva.com.br (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A99B38CD0 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 16:21:53 -0300 (EST) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 16:21:53 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [RFC][DATA] re "ongoing vm suckage" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ben LaHaise , Daniel Phillips , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Lazy movement may give non-optimal heuristics, but if the > heuristics sometimes say "don't make progress", then those > things could have happened without the lazy code - by having the > _real_ conditions match the ones that the lazy one happened to > be. Hmmmm, indeed. All lazy movement can do is make it easier to run into a wall, but it should still be possible without it ... regards, Rik -- Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release: "we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)" http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ -- 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/