Re: MESI Caching work start (was Re: caching and userapi)

[Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Matt Dillon wrote:

>     Interesting.  That article is dated 4 Dec 2001.  I wonder if Larry
>     has updated his thinking since then.  I also looked at the slides
>     and flipped through the two papers mentioned.  He doesn't specifically
>     mention MESI but it is obvious that he is angling for the same effect.

MESI would well for caching the metadata of the / directory
between the OS instances (except for atime updates), but I'm
not sure it would be a good strategy for eg. /tmp ...

Rik
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