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On Nov 30, 2004, at 4:46 AM, Christos Zoulas wrote:

> Maybe there is a way to make sure that you have enough memory to 
> allocate
> (and possibly reserve it) before you commit to do the merging, 
> otherwise
> you do the free with no merge. This way, you'll get most the benefit of
> the merging without the undesirable deadlock.

Like maybe ... always allocate the map entry, but hang it off a free 
list if you end up merging?

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>


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