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Ben Gras ddf1981004 VM: restore >4k secondary cache functionality
. by storing length in the yielded blocks node again
2012-09-18 13:17:52 +02:00
Ben Gras 19e6dad47b VM: only single page chunks
. only reference single pages in process data structures
   to simplify page faults, copy-on-write, etc.
 . this breaks the secondary cache for objects that are
   not one-page-sized; restored in a next commit
2012-09-18 13:17:49 +02:00
Ben Gras ddde360e3e vm - hash table for block cache 2010-10-15 09:10:14 +00:00
Ben Gras f78d8e74fd secondary cache feature in vm.
A new call to vm lets processes yield a part of their memory to vm,
together with an id, getting newly allocated memory in return. vm is
allowed to forget about it if it runs out of memory. processes can ask
for it back using the same id. (These two operations are normally
combined in a single call.)

It can be used as a as-big-as-memory-will-allow block cache for
filesystems, which is how mfs now uses it.
2010-05-05 11:35:04 +00:00