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Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 13:53:08 -0800
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To: Nero <neroz@dingoblue.net.au>
Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: new page cache for linux
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Nero wrote:
> Just thought I'd bring your attention to the new "radix tree page cache"
> in use by linux - I dont know what freebsd do at the moment, but it looks
> like it will improve scalability (you guys might want to use the idea).
> Anyway, heres the link: http://lwn.net/2002/0207/kernel.php3

You should look at how FreeBSD already handles this problem.

Note also that as physical memory approaches real memory in
size, the sparseness of the mapping goes to zero.

-- Terry

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