From 49a086299e047b18280457b654790ef4a2e5abfa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Samuel Thibault Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:58:35 +0100 Subject: Revert "rename open_issues.mdwn to service_solahart_jakarta_selatan__082122541663.mdwn" This reverts commit 95878586ec7611791f4001a4ee17abf943fae3c1. --- .../linux_vmsig.mdwn | 44 ---------------------- 1 file changed, 44 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 service_solahart_jakarta_selatan__082122541663/linux_vmsig.mdwn (limited to 'service_solahart_jakarta_selatan__082122541663/linux_vmsig.mdwn') diff --git a/service_solahart_jakarta_selatan__082122541663/linux_vmsig.mdwn b/service_solahart_jakarta_selatan__082122541663/linux_vmsig.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 182fb6f9..00000000 --- a/service_solahart_jakarta_selatan__082122541663/linux_vmsig.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,44 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!meta title="Linux: vmsig"]] - -[[!tag open_issue_gnumach open_issue_hurd]] - - * *cooperating with the VM when memory pressure increases* - - * *notify user applications of virtual memory events via real-time signals* - -, and discussion at - and -. - -Found this via , which -was linked from [LWN](http://lwn.net/Articles/409416/). - -From a quick glance, this sounds to [[me|tschwinge]] quite a bit like -mechanisms also found in (originating in?) Mach's -[[microkernel/mach/external_pager_mechanism]]. May be worth having a look at -it. - - -# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-03-06 - - tschwinge: from a quick look, this isn't similar to the external - pager mechanism - it's an additional tool to help userspace application manage - internal caches - it's similar to what is done to reclaim memory from the slab - allocator for example - and it would indeed be a very good thing to have so that e.g. the - hurd can build a distributed but completely dynamic dentry-like cache - i'm actually glad to see someone else thought of using real time - signals for this - i didn't do any research on that subject yet -- cgit v1.2.3