From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Daniel Phillips Subject: Re: [PATCH] Optimize out pte_chain take three Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:22:28 +0200 References: <20810000.1026311617@baldur.austin.ibm.com> <20020710173254.GS25360@holomorphy.com> <3D2C9288.51BBE4EB@zip.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3D2C9288.51BBE4EB@zip.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton , William Lee Irwin III Cc: Rik van Riel , Dave McCracken , Linux Memory Management List-ID: 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". -- Daniel -- 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/