Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Oct 2001 18:15:34 -0400 | From | Patrick McFarland <> | Subject | Re: VM |
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On 23-Oct-2001, bill davidsen wrote: > In article <20011023002702.A2446@localhost>, > Patrick McFarland <unknown@panax.com> wrote: > | Slightly off topic, but I kinda find it cool that this thread is still going, seeing as I > | started it on the 15th. =) > | > | Anyhow, have we decided that 2.5 should have the ac-vm or the linus-vm? > > I hope not, the bug-fix and corner case competition is doing good thing > for VM in both directions. That's healthy. > > What I would like to see is VM moved to a module so you could have > either, or any of several competing designs which would be bound to > emerge once there's a neat interface and you can write to that instead > of trying to understand and hack all the stuff needed now. The effort is > high and the chance for problems high as well right now, in other words > a high ratio of implementation to method expertise. > That module idea was mine, btw. Rik will speak up on that too, cause I was talking to him about it. =) I dont like having to run ac just for the better vm engine.
> I also would love to see the dispatcher moved to a module, so people can > easily play with ideas like the idle process, integrating VM and > dispatch operation at high memory load, etc. > > Right now you not only need to understand the topic, but the > implementation. The implementation could be made easier with a clean > interface and an easy way to load changes for test without compiling a > kernel. > > <BOOM> > Yes, I'm still beating the drum for those modules. > </BOOM> > > -- > bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> > His first management concern is not solving the problem, but covering > his ass. If he lived in the middle ages he'd wear his codpiece backward. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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