Re: [patch 0/5] refault distance-based file cache sizing

[Rik van Riel]

On 05/17/2012 11:44 PM, Nai Xia wrote:

> But I do think that Clock-pro deserves its credit, since after all
> it's that research work firstly brought the idea of "refault/reuse
> distance" to the kernel community.

The ARC people did that, too.

> Further more, it's also good
> to let the researchers and the community to together have some
> brain-storm of this problem if it's really hard to deal with in
> reality.

How much are researchers interested in the real world
constraints that OS developers have to deal with?

Often scalability is as much of a goal as being good
at selecting the right page to replace...

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