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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-10-23 23:50:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-10-23 23:53:55 +0200 |
| commit | 8c808d2fc35892210492128eafe72cffbbc5766f (patch) | |
| tree | d2b9568a14152f82158faeb9be97cfdb0fb454bf /open_issues | |
| parent | 0d41c97e727159917752e7d9f18dbb7a018d157d (diff) | |
open_issues/linux_vmsig: New.
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diff --git a/open_issues/linux_vmsig.mdwn b/open_issues/linux_vmsig.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a4311d3e --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/linux_vmsig.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 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* + +<http://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/bookmarking-collector/>, and discussion at +<http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2391> and +<http://marc.info/?t=113269321800003&r=1&w=2>. + +Found this via <http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4094#comment-62100>, 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. |