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-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@osdl.org] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 2:24 PM To: Satapathy, Soumendu Sekhar Subject: Re: Data Caching Service On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:05:04 +0530 "Satapathy, Soumendu Sekhar" <Soumendu.Satapathy@in.unisys.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I was just trying to work out on a Philosophy, where the Application > designer, should not bother about performance issues related to any kind > of > > caching. Even if Data Caching is a simple phenomenon of just storing > data in memory for quick access, we don't want the application designer > > to bother about that. Application designer should bother about only one > thing and that is , the business logic for which they are writing the > > application. > > > > Of course we do have some language features which implements this .Will > it be prudent for the Kernel to take care of all issues related to > caching ? > > Can a robust kernel be implemented to realize this? > > > > I am attaching a small draft with this mail. Will it be possible for you > to just scroll it down in your free time ? If you feel that a variant of > such > > a scheme if implemented can be of some help to linux, then maybe we > could release some useful patches. > hm. But applications can utilise a common cache via shared libraries, and shared memory without involving the kernel. - 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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