andrea buffer code (2.2.9-C.gz)

Manfred Spraul (manfreds@colorfullife.com)
Wed, 19 May 1999 11:31:25 +0200

I noticed that you added a new spinlock to every memmap_t,
i.e. 4 bytes for every 4096 bytes system memory.

Is that really required? Have you made any profiling?

The spinlock is only acquired for a few lines,
perhaps one global spinlock would save memory.

--
	Manfred


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