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    [PATCH] Linux-0.97.1 (August 6, 1992) · ce823b44
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Make the page allocator use a free page list instead of a silly
    linear search.
    
    Add sys_vhangup() and stubs for send/rcv/sendto/recvfrom/shutdown.
    We're making ready for real networking..
    
    Remove nonworking extfs bitmap allocators. We'll have them in ext2.
    
    [Original announcement below]
    
    Patch 1 is essentially a performance-release, but it also contains some
    other patches: Ross Biro's tcp-ip stubs are there (but not the tcpip
    subdirectory: alpha-testers should know where to find that), as are the
    ext-fs superblock cleanups. The first header-file patch by hlu is also
    in there.
    
    The resulting patch is pretty big - it's also not as cleaned up as I'd
    like it to be.  The swapping/buffer-block handling heuristics are
    better, but could still do with some tuning.  Also, the idle task in
    this version doesn't do very much: it will be expanded to do some more
    page-table calculations.
    
    I will be unable to hack on linux for a couple of weeks (I'll still
    answer mails, read the newsgroup and fix bugs, but no heavy-duty
    hacking) due to some "circumstances beyond my control".  That probably
    means that this patch is the last one for a while (three weeks) unless
    some bad bugs show up.
    
                    Linus
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