Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262445AbTEVBvC (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2003 21:51:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262451AbTEVBvC (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2003 21:51:02 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:32137 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262445AbTEVBvB (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2003 21:51:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 19:03:54 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Gerrit Huizenga Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , "Nakajima, Jun" , jamesclv@us.ibm.com, haveblue@us.ibm.com, pbadari@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com, mannthey@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: userspace irq balancer Message-ID: <20030522020354.GO8978@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Gerrit Huizenga , "Martin J. Bligh" , "Nakajima, Jun" , jamesclv@us.ibm.com, haveblue@us.ibm.com, pbadari@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com, mannthey@us.ibm.com References: <58830000.1053566935@[10.10.2.4]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 901 Lines: 22 On Wed, 21 May 2003 18:28:56 PDT, "Martin J. Bligh" wrote: >> I think the word you're groping for here is "microkernel". On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 06:44:46PM -0700, Gerrit Huizenga wrote: > Oh, yeah. Page replacement policy in user level. That one was > a real winner. That's incorrect. Page replacement policy at the user-level was proposed but AIUI not included in Mach. You're thinking of external pagers, which are grossly inefficient but have only to do with the I/O to fetch and store pages belonging to a memory object, not with page replacement. Mach's page replacement policy was global SEGQ. This is specifically discussed by Vahalia. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/