Re: [PATCH] Decrease hash table memory overhead

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Jul 28 2000 - 16:42:59 EST


> On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > This saves about 96K memory on my 128MB machine, more on machines with
> > bigger ram.
>
> I'd rather have just one list function than save a few kB of RAM. Avoid
> confusion, and make people so used to that one list-handling functionalty
> that bugs don't crop up as easily.

100Kb is not what I'd call a small amount of ram. Linux 0.12 probably fitted
into it

Alan

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