On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Alex Hornung <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/04/11 17:26, Sagnik Choudhury wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm a third year undergrad student at Hyderabad, India and I have a >> little idea. Given ARC is close to optimal, as somebody rightly pointed >> out, a patented algorithm will be difficult to ship. How about LRU-K(2)? > > Please submit a proposal detailing why you think LRU-K(2) is suitable, > etc. Also note that LIRS has been proposed as an alternative. The > question whether ARC is suitable from a legal point of view or not is > still somewhat open, so any proposal for this project should include > some alternative. > > Regards, > Alex
Don't forget that the current GSoC proposal is to use ARC for VNODE reclaim, not for page reclaim. -- vs
