From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:01:56 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel 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: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, Linus Torvalds , Matthew Dillon List-ID: 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 You're right, the differences between FreeBSD VM and the new Linux VM should be clearly indicated. > 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'. Indeed. The amount of documentation (books? nah..) on VM is so sparse that it would be good to have both systems properly documented. That would fill a void in CS theory and documentation that was painfully there while I was trying to find useful information to help with the design of the new Linux VM... regards, Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000 http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/ -- 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/