Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:31:05 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 - fixing deadlocks |
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On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 07:08:51AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > taking care of this itself. But this is not something the OS > should prescribe to the application.
Agreed.
> (unless the SHM users tell you that this is the normal way > they use SHM ... but as Christoph just told us, it isn't)
shm is not used as I/O cache from 90% of the apps out there because normal apps uses the OS cache functionality (90% of those apps doesn't use rawio to share a black box that looks like a scsi disk via SCSI bus connected to other hosts as well).
I for sure agree shm swapin/swapout is very important. (we moved shm swapout/swapin to swap cache with readaround for that reason)
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