From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 18:25:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 18:24:53 -0400 Received: from asteria.host4u.net ([216.71.64.118]:6151 "EHLO asteria.host4u.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 18:24:41 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010606152347.028e21d0@ansa.hostings.com> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 15:27:57 -0700 To: Jonathan Morton From: android Subject: Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010606143453.028ed400@ansa.hostings.com> <9fm4t7$412$1@penguin.transmeta.com> <3B1D5ADE.7FA50CD0@illusionary.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > >I'd be happy to write a new routine in assembly > >I sincerely hope you're joking. > >It's the algorithm that needs fixing, not the implementation of that >algorithm. Writing in assembler? Hope you're proficient at writing in >x86, PPC, 68k, MIPS (several varieties), ARM, SPARC, and whatever other >architectures we support these days. And you darn well better hope every >other kernel hacker is as proficient as that, to be able to read it. I realize that assembly is platform-specific. Being that I use the IA32 class machine, that's what I would write for. Others who use other platforms could do the deed for their native language. As for the algorithm, I'm sure that whatever method is used to handle page swapping, it has to comply with the kernel's memory management scheme already in place. That's why I would need the details so that I wouldn't create more problems than already present. Being that most users are on the IA32 platform, I'm sure they wouldn't reject an assembly solution to this problem. As for kernel acceptance, that's an issue for the political eggheads. Not my forte. :-) -- Ted