On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:10:02AM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> I assume that the values are different on different architectures
> because of legacy/backward compatibility concerns, but I dont see
> compelling reasons to mess up new values.
> Why is it important to keep the MADV_ numbers densely packed?  We have 32 bit
> for these, dont we?

Efficiency.  GCC does much better with densely packed numbers in a
switch statement.
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