Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 May 1999 17:21:08 +0200 (CEST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [Godwin] Re: Kernel Nazis/LinBSD (was Re: Slashdot shitheads) |
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On Sat, 15 May 1999, Ricardo Galli Granada wrote: > On Sat, 15 May 1999, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> > Most people don't understand the buffers/cache stuff. > > The theory is quite easy (I am teaching OS since 1993), the > practice is hard.
If you're a capable OS person, you should start in mm/vmscan.c and mm/filemap.c (shrink_mmap()).
> > Most people won't RTFM for you. > > I did not find shrink_mmap in any "nice manual". Did you? > I could not find Linux buffers management documentation although I > spent a lot of time. I am _almost_ sure they do not exist.
I'm pretty sure that this documentation is nonexistant. Unfortunately I'm too busy to write it and add it to the Linux-MM home page :(
If you've written the docs (might come in handy for an OS teacher), could you send me a copy so I can include it on the site and make sure the next person _is_ able to find it?
cheers,
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