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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Jens Owen <jens@precisioninsight.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: accel handling
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 13:51:55 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14283.53227.275065.227789@dukat.scot.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37CB4E69.8C441E27@precisioninsight.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 21:39:21 -0600, Jens Owen
<jens@precisioninsight.com> said:

> Don't know if this would be any help to this discussion, be we have
> some writeups on the mechanisms we use for the DRI at
> http://www.precisioninsight.com/dr/ the most useful might be
> locking.html

Thanks.  Yes, this is exactly what I've been saying all along --- if you
want to make things go fast enough, you need cooperative locking.
Physically enforcing it in the VM wil never be able to keep up with the
pace.

--Stephen
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  reply	other threads:[~1999-08-31 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-08-31  3:39 Jens Owen
1999-08-31 12:51 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-08-29 14:57 James Simmons
1999-08-29 14:52 James Simmons
1999-08-29 16:14 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-08-30  1:14   ` James Simmons
1999-08-30 10:44     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-08-30 12:06   ` Marcus Sundberg
1999-08-30 14:18     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-08-30 14:50       ` James Simmons
1999-08-30 15:52         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-08-30 17:51           ` James Simmons
1999-08-30 20:27             ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-08-31  0:28       ` Vladimir Dergachev
1999-08-31 10:55         ` Marcus Sundberg
1999-08-31 12:49           ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-08-31 17:10             ` James Simmons
1999-08-31 18:44               ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-08-30 14:31     ` James Simmons
1999-08-30 18:51       ` Eric W. Biederman
1999-08-30 19:18         ` James Simmons
1999-08-30 21:39           ` Andreas Beck
1999-08-30 20:36         ` Stephen C. Tweedie

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