diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'open_issues/linux_vmsig.mdwn')
| -rw-r--r-- | open_issues/linux_vmsig.mdwn | 17 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/open_issues/linux_vmsig.mdwn b/open_issues/linux_vmsig.mdwn index a4311d3e..182fb6f9 100644 --- a/open_issues/linux_vmsig.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/linux_vmsig.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!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 @@ -27,3 +27,18 @@ 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 + + <braunr> tschwinge: from a quick look, this isn't similar to the external + pager mechanism + <braunr> it's an additional tool to help userspace application manage + internal caches + <braunr> it's similar to what is done to reclaim memory from the slab + allocator for example + <braunr> 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 + <braunr> i'm actually glad to see someone else thought of using real time + signals for this + <braunr> i didn't do any research on that subject yet |