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| author | https://me.yahoo.com/a/g3Ccalpj0NhN566pHbUl6i9QF0QEkrhlfPM-#b1c14 <diana@web> | 2015-02-16 20:08:03 +0100 |
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| committer | GNU Hurd web pages engine <web-hurd@gnu.org> | 2015-02-16 20:08:03 +0100 |
| commit | 95878586ec7611791f4001a4ee17abf943fae3c1 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/open_issues/linux_vmsig.mdwn b/open_issues/linux_vmsig.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 182fb6f9..00000000 --- a/open_issues/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* - -<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. - - -# 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 |