Linux 2.4 VM Documentation

popoutman writes "Mel Gorman has announced the availability of a guide to the 2.4 kernel VM including a walkthrough of the VM code. Anyone interested in obtaining a solid understanding of the Linux 2.4 VM will certainly want to take a look at this documentation. Mel says that the effort is at least several weeks from being finished, but that he's releasing it now with the hopes of getting feedback to be sure he's on the right track. He also notes that the 2.5 VM is still too much of a moving target for him to document it just yet." See also a Kerneltrap story.

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[Jack Wagner]

Most low level coders are going to find this very useful and I for one, even though I use Gnu/FreeBSD (lower context switch latency and better pipelining performance when under heavy paging loads, etc), am certainly glad to see the Linux camp start to come around regarding the documentation issue.

Fred Brooks in "The Mythical Man Month" states that proper documentation should be given a 20% time slice of each project if you want to have a successful product and this is certainly THE one arena where Linux is lacking, stopping them from commercial success.

As a tip for best results I suggeest using the Extreme Documentation method when writing your docs, it's saved time on the order of Olog(n) for me and a proven time saving technique.

Warmest regards,
--Jack