Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:16:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@unixhelp.org>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern init_main.c kern_fork.c kern_linker.c vfs_aio.c src/sys/sys proc.h Message-ID: <199906301916.PAA25752@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990630105951.12786D-100000@current1.whistle.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906301357250.50480-100000@janus.syracuse.net> <Pine.BSF.3.95.990630105951.12786D-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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<<On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 11:04:42 -0700 (PDT), Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> said: > I understand how "type stable storage" alters the situation, but I worry > about the following cases. > 1/ at some point in the future a different allocation scheme is used. It will still be type-stable, because TSM is an absolute requirement for speed and important in enabling non-blocking synchronization. > 2/ at some point in the future teh zone allocator is taught to reclaim > totally unused pages of zone memory. > (I've seen such system) See #1. > certainly doable.. but semantically different. What do you do in the case > where it doesn't match? The same thing you do now when pfind() returns NULL. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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