On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:08:52PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:

    here is a (rough) draft of the design for the new VM, as
    discussed at UKUUG and OLS. The design is heavily based
    on the FreeBSD VM subsystem - a proven design - with some
    tweaks where we think things can be improved. 

Can the differences between your system and what FreeBSD has be
isolated or contained

You're right, the differences between FreeBSD VM and the new
Linux VM should be clearly indicated.

I ask this because the FreeBSD VM works _very_ well compared to
recent linux kernels; if/when the new system is implement it
would nice to know if performance differences are tuning related
or because of 'tweaks'.

Indeed. The amount of documentation (books? nah..) on VM
is so sparse that it would be good to have both systems
properly documented. That would fill a void in CS theory
and documentation that was painfully there while I was
trying to find useful information to help with the design
of the new Linux VM...

regards,

Rik
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