Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:41:51 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vnode_pager.c Message-ID: <20011015194151.J59854@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <200110160133.aa67738@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>; from iedowse@maths.tcd.ie on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 01:33:04AM %2B0100 References: <20011015164431.G59854@elvis.mu.org> <200110160133.aa67738@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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* Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> [011015 19:33] wrote: > In message <20011015164431.G59854@elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes: > >* Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> [011015 16:40] wrote: > >> Actually, that is a good and intentional feature. (See all the papers > >> on TSM.) That doesn't necessarily mean that it's useful or > >> appropriate for *nodes, though. > > >I currently don't have a better idea, but I really don't like > >the current TSM stuff for this reason, BSD/os has managed to > >go for a long time without needing to implement such things > >(at least for sockets) and I hope that we can get away from it > >or at least contain its spread to other subsystems. > > I sometimes think that FreeBSD's zone allocator tries to be too > many things at once. Maybe zinit() should have a ZONE_TYPESTABLE > flag so that only for code that really requires type-stability do > we guarantee to provide it. That would pave the way for some kind > of memory reuse mechanism, should it prove beneficial. Agreed, something like that would be nice. I really owe it to FreeBSD and myself to complete my memory allocator... *sigh* http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/memcache/ -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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