From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 1 14:28:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA14490 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 14:28:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA14474; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 14:28:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA03407; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 17:28:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199803012228.RAA03407@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: VM: Process hangs sleeping on vmpfw In-Reply-To: <199803011628.TAA00579@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru> from Dmitrij Tejblum at "Mar 1, 98 07:28:35 pm" To: dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru (Dmitrij Tejblum) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 17:28:19 -0500 (EST) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, tlambert@primenet.com, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dmitrij Tejblum said: > "John S. Dyson" wrote: > > > > > > Nothing prevent a filesystem to implement its own getpages/putpages and > > > override the default. > > > > > Yes. The original scheme that we had implemented that, in a VM centric > > way (which was an expedient choice for me at the time.) The scheme was > > changed to look more VFS centric, and cannot say that is bad at all. > > > > I think that moving to a VFS centric approach is less "eccentric." :-). > > > I think, the patch I sent in the previous mail make things even more > VFS centric. Could you make it clear: do you like this patch or not? > I am barely back on my feet, and haven't studied the code yet. However, it initially looks like a good thing. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message