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Other memory management work

Other memory management work

Posted Sep 12, 2002 7:35 UTC (Thu) by Arithon (subscriber, #3647)
In reply to: Other memory management work by cyanide
Parent article: Other memory management work

I saw an article which might help on LWN a few weeks ago:
http://lwn.net/Articles/4526/

It talks about how the kernel could die a horrible death if all was sacrificed at the altar of scalability, and the locking was granularised to the Nth degree. And there's a reference to "cache-coherent clusters" which are an interesting possibility:
http://lwn.net/Articles/4536/


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