Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: What are the VM motivations?? | Date | Sun, 24 Jun 2001 20:44:27 -0700 (PDT) | From | (Colonel) |
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In clouddancer.list.kernel, you wrote: > >On Monday 25 June 2001 03:46, Russell Leighton wrote: >> I read this thread as asking the question: >> >> If VM management is viewed as an optimization problem, >> then what exactly is the function that you are optimizing and what are >> the constraints? >> >> If you could express that well with a even a very loose model, then >> the code could be reviewed to see if it was really doing what was intended >> and assumptions could be tested. > >May I suggested an algorithm? > > - Write down what you think the optimization constraints are. > (be specific, for example, enumerate all the flavors of page types - > process code, process data, page cache file data, page cache swap > cache, anonymous, shmem, etc.) > > - Write down what you think the current algorithms are. > (again, be specific, use file names, function names, pseudocode and > snippets of existing code.) > > - Send it to Rik. He'll tell you if it's right.
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