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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Colonel <klink@clouddancer.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What are the VM motivations??
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 13:34:54 -0300 (BRST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106241332540.7419-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010624161502.4D75C784C4@mail.clouddancer.com>

On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Colonel wrote:

> It's simple.  I want the old reliable behavior back, the one I found
> in kernels from 1.1.41 thru 2.2.14.

And which one would that be ?   Note that there have been
4 different VM subsystems in that time and the kernel has
made the transition from the buffer cache to the page cache
in that period.

Please make up your mind before making feature requests ;)

regards,

Rik
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-24 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <9h6916$4og$1@ns1.clouddancer.com>
2001-06-21 23:01 ` What are the VM motivations?? Jason McMullan
2001-06-21 23:32   ` [OT] " Justin Guyett
2001-06-22  1:13     ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-22  0:23   ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-23 20:23     ` watermodem
2001-07-01 23:58       ` Mark H. Wood
2001-06-23  2:03   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-24 15:04   ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-24 18:01     ` Jason McMullan
2001-06-24 18:26       ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-24 18:52         ` Jason McMullan
2001-06-24 19:29           ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-24 20:29             ` Jason McMullan
2001-06-24 20:49               ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-24 20:39             ` Jonathan Morton
2001-06-24 20:33       ` Stephen Satchell
2001-06-25  1:46       ` Russell Leighton
2001-06-25  2:53         ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-25  3:44           ` Colonel
2001-06-25  4:04             ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-25 15:46               ` Colonel
2001-06-25 16:25                 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-25 17:53                 ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-25 17:48             ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-24 16:15   ` Colonel
2001-06-24 16:34     ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2001-06-24 19:11       ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-06-25  3:40     ` Colonel
2001-07-01 14:43   ` Mark H. Wood

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