Re: [RFC] Optimization for use-once pages

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:27:33 -0700 (PDT)


On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> (using smaller chunks, or chunks which aren't a
> multiple of 4kB should break the current code)

Maybe Patrick is using stdio? In that case, the small chunks will be
coalesced in the library layer anyway, which might explain the lack of
breakage.

Of course, if it improved performance even when "broken", that would be
even better. I like those kind sof algorithms.

Linus

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