DragonFly kernel List (threaded) for 2003-07
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Re: MESI Caching work start (was Re: caching and userapi)
>
> Ah. Oh. *THAT* caching. *THAT* caching is the MESI caching model
> for object data! It's pretty sophisticated but as a first incremental
> step it represents implementing shared/exclusive ranged offset 'locks'
> on VM Objects, like this (this is just my guess at the initial API,
> all comments, ideas, and discussion is welcome!):
>
I may be taking this a step too far, but I had a random thought ...
At least on the surface, one of the major challenges of a clustered file
system performance is buffer cache coherency. Do you think that the
dragonfly model of cache coherency could cleanly extend to that?
-Kip
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