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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:16:16 -0400
From: "Parag Warudkar" <parag.lkml@...il.com>
To: "Greg Ungerer" <gerg@...pgear.com>
Cc: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Adrian Bunk" <bunk@...sta.de>,
"Rusty Russell" <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
"Alan D. Brunelle" <Alan.Brunelle@...com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"Kernel Testers List" <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug #11342] Linux 2.6.27-rc3: kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c - bisected
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Greg Ungerer <gerg@...pgear.com> wrote:
>
> And the pressure will still be on in _real_ products to reduce
> the RAM footprint as much as possible. There are exceptions but
> generally less is cheaper. Simple economics really.
Well, sure - but the industry as a whole seems to have gone the other
way - do more with more at the similar or lower price points!
By that definition of less is better we should try and make the kernel
memory pageable (or has someone already done that?) - Windows does it,
by default ;)
Parag
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