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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2011-02-17 14:15:11 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2011-02-17 14:15:11 +0100 |
| commit | bdd896e0b81cfb40c8d24a78f9022f6cd1ae5e8c (patch) | |
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open_issues/performance/io_system/clustered_page_faults: New. And some more IRC discussions.
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diff --git a/open_issues/performance/io_system/read-ahead.mdwn b/open_issues/performance/io_system/read-ahead.mdwn index 241cda41..3ee30b5d 100644 --- a/open_issues/performance/io_system/read-ahead.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/performance/io_system/read-ahead.mdwn @@ -278,3 +278,22 @@ IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-02-15 <antrik> BTW, I remembered now that KAM's GSoC application should have a pretty good description of the necessary changes... unfortunately, these are not publicly visible IIRC :-( + +--- + +IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-02-16 + + <etenil> braunr: I've looked in the kernel to see where prefetching would + fit best. We talked of the VM yesterday, but I'm not sure about it. It + seems to me that the device part of the kernel makes more sense since + it's logically what manages devices, am I wrong? + <braunr> etenil: you are + <braunr> etenil: well + <braunr> etenil: drivers should already support clustered sector + read/writes + <etenil> ah + <braunr> but yes, there must be support in the drivers too + <braunr> what would really benefit the Hurd mostly concerns page faults, so + the right place is the VM subsystem + +[[clustered_page_faults]] |