Re: Creating a per-task kernel space for kmap, user pagetables, et al

[Martin J. Bligh]

--On Wednesday, March 20, 2002 7:45 PM +0000 Christoph Hellwig <[e-mail]> wrote:

> [Any chance to make your mailer wrap lines after 76 lines?
>  That would make reading a lot easier..]
> 
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:09:05AM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>> Imagine we create a hybrid "u-k-space" with the protections of k-space, but the locality
>> of u-space .... either by making part of the current k-space per task or by making part of
>> the current u-space protected like k-space ... not sure which would be easier.
>> 
>> This u-k-space would be a good area for at least two things (and probably others):
> 
> That has been implemented in Caldera OpenUnix in the last years.
> There was a nice overview paper by Steve Baumel and Rohit Chawla on this,
> called "Managing More Physical With Less Virtual" which I think appeared
> in some Y2000 Byte issue.

The only reference that I could find was this:

http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/spe/spe30.html

and I can't find the actual paper online anywhere ... is it available?

Thanks,

Martin.