Re: What are the VM motivations??

[klink@clouddancer.com (Colonel)]

In clouddancer.list.kernel, you wrote:
>
>On Monday 25 June 2001 03:46, Russell Leighton wrote:
>> I read this thread as asking the question:
>>
>>     If VM management is viewed as an optimization problem,
>>     then what exactly is the function that you are optimizing and what are
>> the constraints?
>>
>> If you could express that well with a even a very loose model, then
>> the code could be reviewed to see if it was really doing what was intended
>> and assumptions could be tested.
>
>May I suggested an algorithm?
>
>  - Write down what you think the optimization constraints are.
>    (be specific, for example, enumerate all the flavors of page types -
>    process code, process data, page cache file data, page cache swap
>    cache, anonymous, shmem, etc.)
>
>  - Write down what you think the current algorithms are.
>    (again, be specific, use file names, function names, pseudocode and 
>    snippets of existing code.)
>
>  - Send it to Rik.  He'll tell you if it's right.

POST IT.  Give the rest of us some clues and the opportunity to check
evaluator's replies.