Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:49:51 -0600 (CST) | From | "Robert M. Hyatt" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] msr v4 available |
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I took a quick peek, and a few comments come to mind:
1. the stuff is against 2.2.0, while 2.2.1 is out and on my machine at least.
2. I'd really like to try the page coloring stuff, but I don't want to spend a lot of time testing/tweaking other stuff (IE the devfs) stuff.
3. the ioctl() approach to turn this on (per process) seems like it might well be a reasonable approach to avoid the overhead for non-cpu bound processes that aren't going to give a squat about this. I'd assume that I could write a simple piece of code that does the ioctl() call, then does an exec() to the real program (ie 'color xyz' would enable coloring and then execute xyz)???
4. What's the chance of your extracting just the coloring code and doing a separate patch that is easier to play with?
Bob
Robert Hyatt Computer and Information Sciences hyatt@cis.uab.edu University of Alabama at Birmingham (205) 934-2213 115A Campbell Hall, UAB Station (205) 934-5473 FAX Birmingham, AL 35294-1170
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