From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:27:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Subject: Re: RFC: design for new VM In-Reply-To: <20000803191906.B562@metastasis.f00f.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Chris Wedgwood Cc: Rik van Riel , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, Linus Torvalds List-ID: CONFIG_VM_FREEBSD_ME_HARDER would be a nice kernel option to have, if possible. Then drop it iff the tweaks are proven over time to work better. On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:08:52PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > here is a (rough) draft of the design for the new VM, as > discussed at UKUUG and OLS. The design is heavily based > on the FreeBSD VM subsystem - a proven design - with some > tweaks where we think things can be improved. > > Can the differences between your system and what FreeBSD has be > isolated or contained -- I ask this because the FreeBSD VM works > _very_ well compared to recent linux kernels; if/when the new system > is implement it would nice to know if performance differences are > tuning related or because of 'tweaks'. > > > > --cw > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- 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/