NetBSD-10.0 virtual memory improvements

2024-04-10 Thread Sad Clouds
Hello, I was interested to read the following release notes: Various optimizations for the machine-independent virtual memory system: - Switched to a faster radix tree algorithm for memory page lookups. - Improved tracking of clean/dirty pages, speeding up fsync(2) on large files by orders of

Re: tickless kernel - high level roadmap ideas

2024-04-10 Thread Mathew, Cherry G.*
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:37:31 +, Ice Cream > said: >> I've been working a little bit on how to tackle tickless in the >> kernel. I'll be hoping to send some preliminary patches later this month >> or so - so this is mostly an email to co-ordinate with anyone else >> working or

Re: [RFC] new APIs to use wskbd(4) input on non-wsdisplayttydevices

2024-04-10 Thread Izumi Tsutsui
uwe@ wrote: > > On the other hand, news68k (and sun) machines have putchar() > > that also handles virtual terminal ops like backspace, CR/LF, > > and even scrolling at the bottom of screen. In this case > > no VT emulation layer is necessary in the kernel side, > > so kernel's putc(9) just calls

Re: tickless kernel - high level roadmap ideas

2024-04-10 Thread Ice Cream
> I've been working a little bit on how to tackle tickless in the > kernel. I'll be hoping to send some preliminary patches later this month > or so - so this is mostly an email to co-ordinate with anyone else > working or aiming to work on similar things. Hi, I'm aiming to work on this project