Re: memory fragmentation / pte-list

["Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" <blah@kvack.org>]

On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:

> Hi Ben (and Stephen),
> 
> Since memory defragmentation is rather high on my list,
> I wonder how far Ben's patch is from integration in the
> kernel...

Right now I'm hoping to have a mid-alpha version by the end of the weekend
(mid-alpha == my machine runs with it, so other people should be able to
test it).  Right now I'm just trying to get everything done (at least I
know what I need to write and how... ;-). 

		-ben (who's finally realized *just* how bad a big kernel
spinlock is)