On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 03:20, Mel Gorman wrote:
Thanks Mel, your monographs looks extremely interesting.
I'll be reading them for weeks.
Is there a similar document for the rest of the 2.5/2.6 kernel;
something to supplement Bovet's & Cesati's book on understanding the
linux kernel. I'll finish my subscription to the LKDP mailing list.
I studied John Lion's UNIX commentary back and your
Linux VM commentary is a greatly appreciated.
-piet
> I made a small number of typo corrections and expanded the introduction
> chapter a small bit on the Linux VM docs on my site. The changes are small
> enough that if anyone has already printed it out, don't bother printing it
> again. They are still available from the usual places.
>
> Main document
> PDF: http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/projects/vm/guide/pdf/understand.pdf
> HTML: http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/projects/vm/guide/html/understand/
> Text: http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/projects/vm/guide/text/understand.txt
>
> Code commentary
> PDF: http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/projects/vm/guide/pdf/code.pdf
> HTML: http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/projects/vm/guide/html/code/
> Text: http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/projects/vm/guide/text/code.txt
>
> On the where it's going front from here, I'm happy to say I've now writing
> a book which will be published under the Bruce Peren's Open Book Series
> (http://www.perens.com/Books/). Some stuff that I'm working on for it
> include;
>
> o Better integration of the code commentary so it's easier to follow
> o Much better introduction sections and updating of the software tools
> o Shiny CD that comes with softcopy versions of the docs, browsable
> version of the tree and hopefully online call graph generation
> o Chapter on anonymous shared memory including the virtual filesystem
> o Assorted expansions and additions
> o And best of all, a fairly detailed introduction to 2.6. The 2.6 sections
> are at the end of each chapter and give a fairly detailed account
> (right now, it's totalling about 30 pages) of what is new in 2.6 and
> how it is implemented
>
> If all goes well, it'll be available before the end of this year or in
> early 2004 :-)
>
> --
> Mel Gorman
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