Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 18:30:52 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_swap.c Message-ID: <15500.939573052@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Oct 1999 09:24:55 PDT." <199910101624.JAA16685@apollo.backplane.com>
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In message <199910101624.JAA16685@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes: >:>useable as anything else as this strategy routine doesn't actually work for >:>normal device access. libkvm doesn't use it, at least not for a very long >:>time. IMHO, the strategy routine should be moved elsewhere for the VM swap >:>code to use as a subroutine and the whole "device" should be deep-six'ed. >: >:But isn't this really just a "striping" function which could be done >:equally well by ccd or vinum ? >: >:-- >:Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member >:phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." > > It's similar, but neither ccd nor vinum can guarentee non-blocking > operation in low-memory situations. And, anyhow, the swapper is my > baby. We can probably remove the external user accessible /dev/drum > but we aren't going to be messing with it any more then that. Cool, so you will kill /dev/drum then ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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