From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kanoj Sarcar Message-Id: <200102270921.BAA10874@google.engr.sgi.com> Subject: Re: 2.5 page cache improvement idea Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 01:21:24 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200102270905.f1R958I03268@eng1.sequent.com> from "Gerrit Huizenga" at Feb 27, 2001 01:05:08 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: gerrit@us.ibm.com Cc: Ben LaHaise , Chuck Lever , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > > > That change is platform specific, isn't it? I thought there was also Yes, completely. > a recent IA-64 patch in progress for the same thing, but I might Yes, a couple of people are planning on attempting that soon, we will see when someone gets to it. > be mistaken. I'm thinking that it would be useful if the machine > independent code supported kernel text replication as well as There *might* be some changes needed for kernel text replication (mostly to deal with /proc/kcore type of things), but for the most part, this is really arch specific. You know, those types of things that tend to show up mostly in production environment, rather than at the prototype/testing stages. > shared/read-only text replication for user level applications. > User level apps, now thats a different beast. I *suspect* a lot of work needs to be put into replication heuristics before you can reap benefits from it. Currently, this is in my pet numa priority list, but not one of the top few. Kanoj > gerrit > -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/