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SubjectRe: 2.4.23aa2 (bugfixes and important VM improvements for the high end)
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 02:39:24 +0100
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:

> you're wrong about s/vm_next/rb_next()/, walking the tree like in
> get_unmapped_area would require recurisve algos w/o vm_next, or
> significant heap allocations. that's the only thing vm_next is needed
> for (i.e. to walk the tree in order efficiently). only if we drop all
> tree walks than we can nuke vm_next.

Not sure what you mean here. rb_next() is not recursive.

-Andi
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