Data Caching Service

[Satapathy, Soumendu Sekhar]

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@xxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 2:24 PM
To: Satapathy, Soumendu Sekhar
Subject: Re: Data Caching Service

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:05:04 +0530
"Satapathy, Soumendu Sekhar" <Soumendu.Satapathy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I was just trying to work out on a Philosophy, where the Application
> designer, should not bother about performance issues related to any
kind
> of
> 
> caching. Even if Data Caching is a simple phenomenon of just storing
> data in memory for quick access, we don't want the application
designer
> 
> to bother about that. Application designer should bother about only
one
> thing and that is , the business logic for which they are writing the 
> 
> application. 
> 
>  
> 
> Of course we do have some language features which implements this
.Will
> it be prudent for the Kernel to take care of all issues related to
> caching ? 
> 
> Can a robust kernel be implemented to realize this?
> 
>  
> 
> I am attaching a small draft with this mail. Will it be possible for
you
> to just scroll it down in your free time ? If you feel that a variant
of
> such
> 
> a scheme if implemented can be of some help to linux,  then maybe we
> could release some useful patches.  
> 

hm.  But applications can utilise a common cache via shared libraries,
and shared memory
without involving the kernel.
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