Re: RFC: design for new VM

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:08:52PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
>     here is a (rough) draft of the design for the new VM, as
>     discussed at UKUUG and OLS. The design is heavily based
>     on the FreeBSD VM subsystem - a proven design - with some
>     tweaks where we think things can be improved. 
> 
> Can the differences between your system and what FreeBSD has be
> isolated or contained

You're right, the differences between FreeBSD VM and the new
Linux VM should be clearly indicated.

> I ask this because the FreeBSD VM works _very_ well compared to
> recent linux kernels; if/when the new system is implement it
> would nice to know if performance differences are tuning related
> or because of 'tweaks'.

Indeed. The amount of documentation (books? nah..) on VM
is so sparse that it would be good to have both systems
properly documented. That would fill a void in CS theory
and documentation that was painfully there while I was
trying to find useful information to help with the design
of the new Linux VM...

regards,

Rik
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