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- From: Ulrich Kuehn <kuehn@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Subject: Cache buffers for MiNT
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 12:13:54 +0200
-
- Hi everybody!
-
- I recently thought about some added functionality in the memory
- management.
-
- Most unixes use the currently not used memory as a cache for the
- file systems. So, I would like it very much if MiNT would have something
- similar, as it would increase the disk performance dramatically.
-
- In my opinion, all we need is a kernel function which can give out
- buffer blocks, and takes as a parameter the address of a call-back
- function, which is called when the block is needed. Then a file system
- could get blocks from the system for a cache. When memory gets low,
- the call-back function is called, where the file system flushes the
- cache block and unlinks it from its internal cache lists.
-
- Unfortunately, I do not have the knowlegde of MiNTs memory management
- system to implement it myself... :(
-
- Any opinions?
-
- Ulrich
-
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