| To: | greg@xtp.engr.sgi.com (Greg Chesson) |
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| Subject: | Re: What about... |
| From: | alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) |
| Date: | Fri, 17 Jul 1998 19:14:04 +0100 (BST) |
| Cc: | wje@fir.engr.sgi.com, adevries@engsoc.carleton.ca, anubis@BanjaLuka.NET, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com |
| In-reply-to: | <9807171047.ZM18720@xtp.engr.sgi.com> from "Greg Chesson" at Jul 17, 98 10:47:02 am |
| Sender: | owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com |
> many "holes"... The idea of a simple buddy-system allocator as is > ingrained in the Linux kernel falls apart completely in the face of > this kind of architecture. I suppose you could run a copy of Linux > on every node, but I consider that an excuse rather than a solution. Actually the Linux buddy stuff is quite happy with holes. Its still completely inappropriate. From the above I deduce we'd have to do mips64 before we even considerd it anyway |
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