Re: [BK PATCH 2.5] Introduce 64-bit versions of PAGE_{CACHE_,}{MASK,ALIGN}

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Sun, 28 Jul 2002 23:18:11 -0300 (BRT)


On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > Together with the K42 people we found a way to avoid the
> > badnesses of an object-based VM.
>
> eek. Please let's not tie the delivery of the 2.6 kernel to the success
> of this R&D effort. We need reasonable-sized fixes, fast, for the
> current problems so that people who have feature work banked up can get
> going on it.

Fully agreed. We can go with the mechanisms we have now and
should only work on new mechanisms later.

I'm planning to keep the whole K42-style VM thing in design
stage at least until after the feature freeze...

(just so nobody gets tempted to sneak it into the kernel ;))

regards,

Rik

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