 Messages in this thread SubjectLinux VM design Hi VM folks,
I'd like to understand Linux VM but there's not much in
Documentation/vm/* on the subject. I understand that with
current frantic development pace it is hard to maintain such
docs. However, with only a handful of people really understading
how VM works we risk ending in a situation when nobody will know
how to fix it (does recent Andrea's VM rewrite just replaced
large part of hardly maintenable, not-quite-right VM in 2.4.10?)
When I have a stalled problem to solve, I sometimes catch
unsuspecting victim and start explainig what I am trying to do
and how I'm doing that. Often, in the middle of my explanation,
I realize myself what I did wrong. There is an old teacher's
joke: "My pupils are dumb! I explained them this theme once,
then twice, I finally myself understood it, and they still
don't". Since we reached some kind of stability with 2.4, maybe
Andrea, Rik and whoever else is considering himself VM geek
would tell us not-so-clever lkml readers