From: Patrick McFarland <unknown@panax.com>
To: bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VM
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 18:15:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011023181533.B379@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011023002702.A2446@localhost> <63kB7.3873$0w5.657641665@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com>
In-Reply-To: <63kB7.3873$0w5.657641665@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com>
On 23-Oct-2001, bill davidsen wrote:
> In article <20011023002702.A2446@localhost>,
> Patrick McFarland <unknown@panax.com> wrote:
> | Slightly off topic, but I kinda find it cool that this thread is still going, seeing as I
> | started it on the 15th. =)
> |
> | Anyhow, have we decided that 2.5 should have the ac-vm or the linus-vm?
>
> I hope not, the bug-fix and corner case competition is doing good thing
> for VM in both directions. That's healthy.
>
> What I would like to see is VM moved to a module so you could have
> either, or any of several competing designs which would be bound to
> emerge once there's a neat interface and you can write to that instead
> of trying to understand and hack all the stuff needed now. The effort is
> high and the chance for problems high as well right now, in other words
> a high ratio of implementation to method expertise.
>
That module idea was mine, btw. Rik will speak up on that too, cause I was talking to him about it. =) I dont like having to run ac just for the better vm engine.
> I also would love to see the dispatcher moved to a module, so people can
> easily play with ideas like the idle process, integrating VM and
> dispatch operation at high memory load, etc.
>
> Right now you not only need to understand the topic, but the
> implementation. The implementation could be made easier with a clean
> interface and an easy way to load changes for test without compiling a
> kernel.
>
> <BOOM>
> Yes, I'm still beating the drum for those modules.
> </BOOM>
>
> --
> bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
> His first management concern is not solving the problem, but covering
> his ass. If he lived in the middle ages he'd wear his codpiece backward.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-23 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-22 21:33 VM Marcelo Roberto Jimenez
2001-10-22 21:44 ` VM Oliver Xymoron
2001-10-23 4:27 ` VM Patrick McFarland
2001-10-23 20:04 ` VM bill davidsen
2001-10-23 20:13 ` VM Rik van Riel
2001-10-23 22:15 ` Patrick McFarland [this message]
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2001-10-22 13:36 VM Michael T. Babcock
2001-10-22 14:02 ` VM Alan Cox
2001-10-22 18:00 ` VM Mike Fedyk
2001-10-22 17:32 ` VM Marcelo Tosatti
2001-10-22 18:59 ` VM Daniel Phillips
2001-10-22 22:10 ` VM Ed Tomlinson
2001-10-23 5:37 ` VM Keith Owens
2001-10-23 5:38 ` VM Keith Owens
2001-10-23 16:15 ` VM Daniel Phillips
2001-10-23 16:14 ` VM David Lang
2001-10-24 13:54 ` VM J . A . Magallon
2001-10-24 18:11 ` VM Luigi Genoni
2001-10-24 14:44 ` VM Daniel Phillips
2001-10-24 16:24 ` VM David Lang
2001-10-24 17:56 ` VM Daniel Phillips
2001-10-24 16:50 ` VM David Lang
2001-10-24 18:29 ` VM Daniel Phillips
2001-10-22 20:21 ` VM Alan Cox
2001-10-22 22:35 ` VM J . A . Magallon
2001-10-17 7:55 VM Leeuw van der, Tim
2001-10-17 11:08 ` VM Liu Tao
2001-10-17 2:31 VM Marcelo Roberto Jimenez
[not found] <E7405EE40489D411B30F00508BF38F8D049677E2@wlvexc01.diginsite.com>
2001-10-16 16:44 ` VM David Lang
2001-10-16 18:11 ` VM Rik van Riel
2001-10-16 22:31 ` VM Luigi Genoni
2001-10-16 1:12 VM Patrick McFarland
2001-10-16 0:53 ` VM David Lang
2001-10-16 12:28 ` VM John Levon
2001-10-16 12:34 ` VM Tobias Ringstrom
2001-10-16 16:17 ` VM David Lang
2001-10-16 1:57 ` VM Linus Torvalds
2001-10-16 3:08 ` VM Patrick McFarland
2001-10-16 3:15 ` VM Robert Love
2001-10-16 3:17 ` VM Patrick McFarland
[not found] ` <1003202417.861.6.camel@phantasy>
[not found] ` <20011015232245.F1314@localhost>
2001-10-16 3:28 ` VM Robert Love
2001-10-16 5:08 ` VM safemode
2001-10-16 4:40 ` VM David Lang
2001-10-16 13:34 ` VM safemode
2001-10-16 14:19 ` VM Allan Sandfeld
2001-10-16 16:14 ` VM Rik van Riel
2001-10-16 3:15 ` VM Patrick McFarland
2001-10-16 10:26 ` VM Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-10-16 23:38 ` VM Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-17 0:49 ` VM Rik van Riel
2001-10-17 1:15 ` VM Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-16 23:24 ` VM Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-16 8:14 ` VM Anuradha Ratnaweera
2001-10-16 13:36 ` VM Luigi Genoni
2001-10-16 14:04 ` VM bill davidsen
2001-10-16 14:11 ` VM Rik van Riel
2001-10-16 14:41 ` VM Martin Dalecki
2001-10-16 13:51 ` VM Bill Davidsen
2001-10-16 8:08 ` VM Alan Cox
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