From: Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream...
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 09:51:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602010951.08967.andrew@walrond.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <986ed62e0601312006y75748bd9x8925556e979d59c9@mail.gmail.com>
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 04:06, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
>
> Also, the only way I see where "there is no more swapping" and
> "[y]ou're dealing with memory only" is if the disk *becomes* main
> memory, and main memory becomes an L3 (or L4) cache for the CPU [and
> as a consequence, main memory also becomes the main form of long-term
> storage]. Is that what you're proposing?
>
In the not-too-distant future, there is likely to be a ram/disk price
inversion; ram becomes cheaper/mb than disk. At that point, we'll be buying
hardware based on "how much disk can I afford to provide power-off backup of
my ram?" rather than "how much ram can I afford?"
At that point, things will change.
Maybe, then, everything _will_ be in ram (with the kernel will intelligently
write out pages to the disk in the background, incase of power failure and
ready for a shutdown). Disk reads only ever occur during a power-on
population of ram.
Blue skys....
Andrew Walrond
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-01 9:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-21 18:08 [RFC] VM: I have a dream Al Boldi
2006-01-21 18:42 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-21 18:46 ` Avi Kivity
2006-01-23 19:52 ` Bryan Henderson
2006-01-25 22:04 ` Al Boldi
2006-01-26 19:18 ` Bryan Henderson
2006-01-27 16:12 ` Al Boldi
2006-01-27 19:17 ` Bryan Henderson
2006-01-30 13:21 ` Al Boldi
2006-01-30 13:35 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-31 15:56 ` Al Boldi
2006-01-31 16:34 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-31 23:14 ` Bryan Henderson
2006-01-31 16:34 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-01-31 19:23 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-02-01 4:06 ` Barry K. Nathan
2006-02-01 9:51 ` Andrew Walrond [this message]
2006-02-01 17:51 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-02-01 18:21 ` Andrew Walrond
2006-02-01 18:25 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-02-02 15:11 ` Alan Cox
2006-02-02 18:59 ` Al Boldi
2006-02-02 22:33 ` Bryan Henderson
2006-02-03 14:46 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-30 16:49 ` Bryan Henderson
2006-01-26 0:03 ` Jon Smirl
2006-01-26 19:48 ` Bryan Henderson
2006-01-22 8:16 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-22 12:33 ` Robin Holt
2006-01-23 18:03 ` Al Boldi
2006-01-23 18:40 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-01-23 19:26 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-01-23 19:40 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-01-23 22:26 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-22 19:55 ` Barry K. Nathan
2006-01-23 5:23 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-23 5:46 ` Chase Venters
2006-01-23 8:20 ` Barry K. Nathan
2006-01-23 13:17 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-23 20:21 ` Peter Chubb
2006-01-23 15:05 ` Ram Gupta
2006-01-23 15:26 ` Diego Calleja
2006-01-23 16:11 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-01-23 16:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-24 2:08 ` Horst von Brand
2006-01-25 6:13 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-25 9:23 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-25 9:42 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-25 15:02 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-25 23:24 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-25 15:05 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-25 15:47 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-25 16:09 ` Diego Calleja
2006-01-25 17:26 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-26 19:13 ` Bryan Henderson
2006-01-25 23:28 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-26 1:29 ` Diego Calleja
2006-01-26 5:01 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-26 5:11 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-26 14:46 ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-01-24 2:10 ` Horst von Brand
2006-01-25 22:27 ` Nix
2006-01-26 15:13 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-01-26 16:23 ` Nix
2006-01-23 20:43 ` Michael Loftis
2006-01-23 22:42 ` Nikita Danilov
2006-01-24 14:36 ` Ram Gupta
2006-01-24 15:04 ` Diego Calleja
2006-01-24 20:59 ` Bryan Henderson
2006-01-24 15:11 ` Nikita Danilov
2006-01-23 22:57 ` Ram Gupta
2006-01-24 10:08 ` Meelis Roos
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-01 13:58 Al Boldi
2006-02-01 14:38 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-02-02 12:26 ` Al Boldi
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