Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 May 2012 23:30:57 +0800 | From | Nai Xia <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/5] refault distance-based file cache sizing |
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On 2012年05月18日 23:07, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 05/17/2012 11:44 PM, Nai Xia wrote: > >> But I do think that Clock-pro deserves its credit, since after all >> it's that research work firstly brought the idea of "refault/reuse >> distance" to the kernel community. > > The ARC people did that, too.
Well, I think you said "take the good parts of clock-pro"... Anyway, then I think you should credit either of the previous works... :D
> >> Further more, it's also good >> to let the researchers and the community to together have some >> brain-storm of this problem if it's really hard to deal with in >> reality. > > How much are researchers interested in the real world > constraints that OS developers have to deal with?
I think there will be nobody, if we don't try to let them know about the constraints. Honestly, LKML are hard for researchers to follow. They really need abstract view of a problem. Surely there is a gap...between researchers and developers.
> > Often scalability is as much of a goal as being good > at selecting the right page to replace... > Then scalability might be a good research topic as long as they have the chance to understand the details.
Ok, all I want to say is another way that may help the kernel world better. I am actually quite positive about the patch itself. -- 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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