Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 08:08:02 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A question for the VM gurus..! Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960516080633.12621D-100000@terra> In-Reply-To: <199605151714.MAA22723@dyson.iquest.net>
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> > MADV_WILLNEED appears to fault pages (again, asynchrnously, from what I can > > tell). > Hmmm... time to implement kernel threads. actually, sunos had async. read-ahead from 1988 on, long before kernel threads. They just queued an i/o and did not wait for the result. So you don't absolutely have to have kernel threads. ron
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