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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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-- 
Patrick "Diablo-D3" McFarland || unknown@panax.com

  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]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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