Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 19:08 +0100, ness wrote:

[1] is about application controlled file caching. It is pretty clear that one program alone mustn't decide whether a cache may be freed, as this would eventually reduce other program's cache hit rate.


Yes. The most that an application can say concerning a shared resource
is: "I am no longer interested in this resource and I will no longer pay
for its residency". Whether to remove it is a more global question.

If you frame the problem this way, you will rapidly conclude that the
question of "sponsorship" is extremely complicated, and after a lot of
literature search

Do you have pointers?

you will come to the conclusion that something like a
futures market is needed, and that our meat-world understanding of how a
futures market works actually isn't sufficient.

It's a VERY hard and very open problem.

shap


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