On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, David Weinehall wrote:
> One thing that struck me about this; doesn't both the rmap-patches and
> the aa-patches contain other changes than merely changes to the VM? If
> so, couldn't these changes tip the result in an unfair direction?! After
> all, what we want is a VM-to-VM shoot-out, not a VM-to-VM+whatever
> shoot-out. After all, one would assume that the non VM-related changes
> would be merged to the kernel no matter what VM is used, right?
The -aa kernel seems to contain patches to a few dozen subsystems.
The -rmap patch is pretty much only VM changes.
You're right that this is not a strict VM vs VM comparison...
kind regards,
Rik
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