Ok, I'm going to let Sascha handle this submission too. I
talked with John a bit about it and here is my position:
* For the sake of making the porting easier I'm O.K. with
the userland side being implemented, with the exception
of the PAGESIZES stuff.
* I am very much <against> implementing any of the kernel side.
I don't see any point whatsoever in these 'features' other than
adding unnecessary complexity to the system just to replace
a few system calls that already only take ~200ns to run or less.
* Plus we also have our 'resident' utility. I guess people might
have forgotten that we have that. It removes nearly all of the
overhead of loading a complex dynamically linked program. We
don't need these added features in DFly to make things go faster.
So, in summary, The #define's are ok, but the kernel shouldn't
implement any of them (no kernel code or in-kernel structural
changes). The userland code support is ok, with the exception of
the PAGESIZES sysctl stuff because I don't think we should implement
any kernel side support for that, at least not the way they've got
it setup.
-Matt