Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jul 2003 19:20:47 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] My research agenda for 2.7 |
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On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 07:04:45PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > If we're thinking about the same thing, the basic idea was to store > information into a higher level object and make more intelligent paging > decisions based on the higher level object. In my brain, since I'm a > SunOS guy, that means that you store information in the vnode (inode) > which reflects the status of all pages backed by this inode. > Instead of trying to figure out what to do at the page level, you figure > out what to do at the object level. > Some postings about this: > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=topvn+mcvoy&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=3cgeu9%24h96%40fido.asd.sgi.com&rnum=1 > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=vnode+mcvoy&start=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=l0ojgnINN59t%40appserv.Eng.Sun.COM&rnum=12 > I can't find the writeup that you are thinking about. I know what you mean, > there was a discussion of paging algs and I went off about how scanning a > page a time is insane. If someone finds the URL let me know.
I believe people are already on file object local page replacement, though it's more in the planning than implementation phase.
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