Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 May 2012 11:07:36 -0400 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/5] refault distance-based file cache sizing |
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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.
> 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?
Often scalability is as much of a goal as being good at selecting the right page to replace...
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