From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 16:32:39 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: RFC: design for new VM In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: lamont@icopyright.com, Chris Wedgwood , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu List-ID: On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 lamont@icopyright.com wrote: > > > > 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 eproblem is/may be the basic setup. Does FreeBSD have the > notion of things like high memory etc? Different memory pools > for NUMA? Things like that.. That's basically a minor issue. The FreeBSD page replacement code (or rather the slightly modified one) can just be glued on top of that. If the code isn't modular enough to do that it wouldn't be maintainable anyway. 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/