From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
Christian Smith <csmith@micromuse.com>
Cc: Joseph A Knapka <jknapka@earthlink.net>,
"Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Why *not* rmap, anyway?
Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 20:38:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E174Qu0-00048i-00@starship> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0204232145120.1960-100000@imladris.surriel.com>
On Wednesday 24 April 2002 02:46, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Christian Smith wrote:
>
> > The question becomes, how much work would it be to rip out the Linux MM
> > piece-meal, and replace it with an implementation of UVM?
>
> I doubt we want the Mach pmap layer.
>
> It should be much easier to reimplement the pageout parts of
> the BSD memory management on top of a simpler reverse mapping
> system.
>
> You can get that code at http://surriel.com/patches/
Another aspect of the (Free)BSD mm we probably want to hijack is the process
management, i.e., throttling processes selectively (and in some kind of fair
rotation) to reduce mm thrashing, which is known to improve throughput in high
load situations.
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Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-05 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-21 22:27 Joseph A Knapka
2002-04-22 0:23 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-04-22 2:13 ` Joseph A Knapka
2002-04-22 5:46 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-04-23 22:40 ` Christian Smith
2002-04-24 0:46 ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-24 10:50 ` Christian Smith
2002-04-24 14:20 ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-24 14:37 ` Momchil Velikov
2002-04-24 14:52 ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-24 15:16 ` Momchil Velikov
2002-04-24 18:31 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-04-25 15:19 ` Christian Smith
2002-05-05 19:04 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-07 18:37 ` Christian Smith
2002-05-07 19:23 ` Rik van Riel
2002-05-07 19:25 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-07 19:47 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-07 19:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-07 23:02 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-08 0:08 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-08 5:08 ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-08 7:59 ` Momchil Velikov
2002-05-08 14:33 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-08 14:43 ` Rik van Riel
2002-05-08 16:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-08 16:10 ` Rik van Riel
2002-05-07 19:49 ` Rik van Riel
2002-05-07 19:53 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-07 19:43 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-07 19:51 ` Rik van Riel
2002-05-07 23:11 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-07 21:21 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-07 23:15 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-07 19:37 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-07 19:47 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-05 18:38 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2002-05-05 22:23 ` Rik van Riel
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