2 Sep
2018
2 Sep
'18
8:55 p.m.
On Sat, Sep 1, 2018, 11:19 PM Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling(a)kev009.com>
wrote:
Seems like Chuck Cranor is at CMU
http://chuck.cranor.org/. Chuck
Silvers is with you?
Why I'm embarrassed to admit you are right. Chuck Silvers also did some VM
work, but not uvm.
Warner
On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 1:25 PM, Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
On Sat, Sep 1, 2018, 1:42 PM ron minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was his advisor on that thesis so I got to watch it roll out as it
> happened.
>
> uvm replaced the machvm in netbsd.
>
> For a time, Chuck set it up to run in parallel with the existing VM. You
> could start a process and pick which vm it used. For a while, it
defaulted
> to the existing one. Then, at some point, it
defaulted to uvm. Then, at
some
> point, the old one was removed.
>
> more here:
>
> http://www.netbsd.org/docs/kernel/uvm.html
>
> via search terms
> uvm replaces machvm netbsd
>
> chuck was a long time contributor to netbsd IIRC, but last time we
talked,
he was
using Linux.
These days I know he's hacking on FreeBSD's storage stack with me at work
:). I think he's still a netbsd contributor. I see his name in the commit
log often..
Warner