-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Morton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 2:24 PM
To: Satapathy, Soumendu Sekhar
Subject: Re: Data Caching Service
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:05:04 +0530
"Satapathy, Soumendu Sekhar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I was just trying to work out on a Philosophy, where the Application
> designer, should not bother about performance issues related to any
kind
> of
>
> caching. Even if Data Caching is a simple phenomenon of just storing
> data in memory for quick access, we don't want the application
designer
>
> to bother about that. Application designer should bother about only
one
> thing and that is , the business logic for which they are writing the
>
> application.
>
>
>
> Of course we do have some language features which implements this
.Will
> it be prudent for the Kernel to take care of all issues related to
> caching ?
>
> Can a robust kernel be implemented to realize this?
>
>
>
> I am attaching a small draft with this mail. Will it be possible for
you
> to just scroll it down in your free time ? If you feel that a variant
of
> such
>
> a scheme if implemented can be of some help to linux, then maybe we
> could release some useful patches.
>
hm. But applications can utilise a common cache via shared libraries,
and shared memory
without involving the kernel.
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