On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 11:54, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: > Its about freaking time. I was initially kind of skeptical when linus > chose to rip out the memory stuff and replace it after release but now I > see the wisdom in it. All of those folks posting performance tests have > missed the point.
Actually, the way I heard it was that Linus was applying Rik's patches haphazardly, picking and choosing, and that was why the VM was so broken. AA's VM may work okay, but I don't think there was anything fundamentally wrong with Rik's (except in how it was applied to released kernels). I also think Rik's new VM (the reverse mapping VM based on similar BSD work) holds a lot more promise than anything else out there... Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- GPG Fingerprint = A66C 8660 924F 5F8C 71DA BDD0 CE09 4F8E DE76 39D4 GPG Key can be found at http://wtl.wayfarer.org/lovelace.gpg.asc --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- Those who are willing to sacrifice essential liberties for a little order, will lose both and deserve neither. -- Benjamin Franklin History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. -- Justice Thurgood Marshall, 1989
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