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authormcsim <mcsim@web>2011-11-08 14:59:37 +0100
committerGNU Hurd web pages engine <web-hurd@gnu.org>2011-11-08 14:59:37 +0100
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@@ -87,3 +87,14 @@ To debug tmpfs, using libraries from "$PWD"/lib and trace rpc:
(10:45:11) mcsim: what kind of deficiencies?
(10:45:16) braunr: bugs
(10:45:39) braunr: and design issues, making anonymous memory fragmentation horrible
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+ ...
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+ (15:23:33) antrik: mcsim: vm_allocate doesn't return a memory object; so it can't be passed to clients for mmap()
+ (15:50:37) mcsim: antrik: I use vm_allocate in pager_read_page
+ (15:54:43) antrik: mcsim: well, that means that you have to actually implement a pager yourself
+ (15:56:10) antrik: also, when the kernel asks the pager to write back some pages, it expects the memory to become free.
+ if you are "paging" to ordinary anonymous memory, this doesn't happen; so I expect it to have a very bad effect
+ on system performance
+ (15:56:54) antrik: both can be avoided by just passing a real anonymous memory object, i.e. one provided by the defpager
+ (15:57:07) antrik: only problem is that the current defpager implementation can't really handle that...