Cisco HFR

Thu May 27 06:46:09 UTC 2004

I saw such technique in 1986 (approx) year on hardware level - russia
computer Elbrus did it.

: Re: Cisco HFR

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> On Wed, May 26, 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
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> > Palm has taken an interesting approach to get rid of fragmentation: the
> > OS is allowed to move (some) structures from one physical memory
> > location to another. This only works if the processes that use this
> > memory are written to support this, of course.
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> Its not a new technique - if you allocate memory "handlers" rather than
> addresses and ask the OS/Memorymanager to lock a handler in memory
> (and give you an address) then the OS/MM is able to move around unlocked
> memory blocks, even on/off disk, at whim.
>
> Win16 memory allocation looked like this, and I'm sure it was lifted
> from something even older.
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> Its not actually a bad idea in a single-process standalone application.
> It certainly beats using a VM in this instance.
>
> Anyway, back to the network topics.
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> Adrian
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