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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:36:06 -0500, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> said:

> No, the zone allocator sucks, one memory is pinned for a zone it
> can not be reused.

Actually, that is a good and intentional feature.  (See all the papers
on TSM.)  That doesn't necessarily mean that it's useful or
appropriate for *nodes, though.

-GAWollman


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