From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from neon.transmeta.com (neon-best.transmeta.com [206.184.214.10]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA10214 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 1999 19:22:01 -0500 Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 16:19:13 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Alan Cox Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , werner@suse.de, andrea@e-mind.com, riel@humbolt.geo.uu.nl, Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr, ebiederm+eric@ccr.net, saw@msu.ru, steve@netplus.net, damonbrent@earthlink.net, reese@isn.net, kalle.andersson@mbox303.swipnet.se, bmccann@indusriver.com, bredelin@ucsd.edu, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > > Thats a bug in our current vm structures, like the others - inability to > throw out page tables, inability to find memory easily, inability to move > blocks to allocate large areas in a target space, inability to handle > large user spaces etc. What? None of those are bugs, they are features. Complexity is not a goal to be reached. Complexity is something to be avoided at all cost. If you don't believe me, look at NT. Linus -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm my@address' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/