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180% solution in the works?

180% solution in the works?

Posted Nov 3, 2005 6:50 UTC (Thu) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322)
Parent article: Fragmentation avoidance

> ... solving 90% of the problem, and leave the other 90% for later.
> Ingo, instead, fears that second 90% ...

That's a *big* problem!


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180% solution in the works?

Posted Nov 3, 2005 7:47 UTC (Thu) by mingo (subscriber, #31122) [Link]

Yeah. That's the tricky thing about kernel features, the second 90% is usually much harder than the first 90% of a solution. Sometimes there's even a third 90% that has to be taken care of!

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