On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Alex Hornung <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29/03/11 07:02, Nohhyun Park wrote: >> Hi. >> I am a student hoping to work on the "Implement ARC algorithm >> extension for the vnode free list" project. > > Have you given this some thought? ARC is a patented algorithm and I'm > not sure it's the greatest idea to implement[1], knowingly, a patented > algorithm. > > I think you should discuss your thoughts here on this list more before > putting your application forward. Maybe someone else can provide some > other algorithm with similar performance to ARC, yet not patent encumbered. > > Kind Regards, > Alex Hornung > > [1]: http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/96.php >
LIRS -> http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/hpcs/WWW/HTML/publications/papers/TR-02-6.pdf was suggested as a possible alternative on IRC. Best, Sam
