From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 7 7:59: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail009.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail009.syd.optusnet.com.au [203.2.75.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69FD837B422; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 07:58:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsd (ocmax6-217.dialup.optusnet.com.au [198.142.39.217]) by mail009.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g17FwvD32638; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 02:58:57 +1100 Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 02:59:00 +1100 From: Nero To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: new page cache for linux Message-Id: <20020208025900.4717cf72.neroz@dingoblue.net.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- It's not reality or how you perceive things that's important, it's what you're taking for it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message