From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <433C4343.20205@tmr.com> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:40:51 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] CART - an advanced page replacement policy References: <20050929180845.910895444@twins> In-Reply-To: <20050929180845.910895444@twins> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List List-ID: 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. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me -- 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-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org