On Friday 12 September 2008 19:35:24 Elad Lahav wrote: > > I am interested in page replacement policy.as I am > > new to linux kernel I not able to select particular page replacement > > algorithm for study. > > A word of caution: > These parts of the Linux kernel are usually highly optimised for > performance. You may find that an algorithm taught in some OS class that > has a much better complexity than the one currently implemented, behaves > considerably worse in reality. This is usually due to things that are not > normally taken into consideration by theorists, such as cache alignment, > branch predictions, etc. > > If you are interested in a project for the sake of learning or > experimenting with OS principals in general, Linux may not be the right > choice for you. Or, as Linux is open-source, and anyone is welcomed to play around with it, maybe Linux is *the* choice for you - just don't get your hopes up about getting your memory management module included in the mainstream kernel ;) -- mvh Henrik Austad
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