Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:01:56 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: RFC: design for new VM |
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On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:08:52PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > here is a (rough) draft of the design for the new VM, as > discussed at UKUUG and OLS. The design is heavily based > on the FreeBSD VM subsystem - a proven design - with some > tweaks where we think things can be improved. > > Can the differences between your system and what FreeBSD has be > isolated or contained
You're right, the differences between FreeBSD VM and the new Linux VM should be clearly indicated.
> I ask this because the FreeBSD VM works _very_ well compared to > recent linux kernels; if/when the new system is implement it > would nice to know if performance differences are tuning related > or because of 'tweaks'.
Indeed. The amount of documentation (books? nah..) on VM is so sparse that it would be good to have both systems properly documented. That would fill a void in CS theory and documentation that was painfully there while I was trying to find useful information to help with the design of the new Linux VM...
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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