Excerpts from Matthew Wilcox's message of September 2, 2021 8:17 pm: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 01:25:36PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: >> > I have been thinking about this a bit; one of our internal performance >> > teams flagged the potential performance win to me a few months ago. >> > I don't have a concrete design for text replication yet; there have been >> > various attempts over the years, but none were particularly compelling. >> >> What was not compelling about it? > > It wasn't merged, so clearly it wasn't compelling enough? Ha ha. It sounded like you had some reasons you didn't find it particularly compelling :P > >> https://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2007/07/27/112 >> >> What are the other attempts? > > I found one from Dave Hansen in 2003: > > https://lwn.net/Articles/45082/ > Huh interesting. I'd be surprised if I didn't see it go by at the time. Thanks, Nick
