[HN Gopher] The Design of the NetBSD I/O Subsystems (2002)
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       The Design of the NetBSD I/O Subsystems (2002)
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 86 points
       Date   : 2021-08-06 09:12 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
        
       | rayiner wrote:
       | Relatedly, here's a PhD thesis on UVM, NetBSD's virtual memory
       | subsystem: https://chuck.cranor.org/p/diss.pdf. It gets into a
       | lot of key issues relating to efficient implementation of virtual
       | memory in a UNIX OS, such as efficiently implementing fork(),
       | mmap(), shared memory, and paging.
        
       | brickbrd wrote:
       | Both the documents look great and I want to read them.
       | 
       | But, how useful is it for me to read about NetBSD if I am
       | interested in details of inner workings of Linux kernel?
       | 
       | Do the concepts carry over effectively?
        
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