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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] CART - an advanced page replacement policy
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:40:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <433C4343.20205@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050929180845.910895444@twins>

Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Multiple memory zone CART implementation for Linux.
> An advanced page replacement policy.
> 
> http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/dmodha/clockfast.pdf
> (IBM does hold patent rights to the base algorithm ARC)

Peter, this is a large patch, perhaps you could describe what configs 
benefit, how much, and what the right to use status of the patent might 
be. In other words, why would a reader of LKML put in this patch and try it?

The description of how it works is clear, but the problem solved isn't.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-29 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-29 18:08 Peter Zijlstra
2005-09-29 18:08 ` [PATCH 1/7] " Peter Zijlstra
2005-09-29 18:08 ` [PATCH 2/7] " Peter Zijlstra
2005-09-29 18:08 ` [PATCH 3/7] " Peter Zijlstra
2005-09-30 18:44   ` Marcelo
2005-09-30 19:16     ` Peter Zijlstra
2005-09-30 19:27       ` Peter Zijlstra
2005-09-29 18:08 ` [PATCH 4/7] " Peter Zijlstra
2005-09-29 18:08 ` [PATCH 5/7] " Peter Zijlstra
2005-09-29 18:08 ` [PATCH 6/7] " Peter Zijlstra
2005-09-29 18:08 ` [PATCH 7/7] " Peter Zijlstra
2005-09-29 19:40 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2005-09-30 15:26   ` [PATCH 0/7] " Peter Zijlstra
2005-10-01  2:41     ` Bill Davidsen

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