On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 7:30 PM, J L <dimitar9...@gmail.com> wrote: > I read an article about Reverse Mappings technique in memory management > part. It improves a lot from Linux 2.4 to 2.6. I am wondering is FreeBSD > also have this feature? Which source files should I go to find these? I > want > to do some study on this. > Wish someone can enlighten me. Thank you. >
Reverse mappings are implemented by the machine-dependent layer of the virtual memory system, which is called the "pmap". Look for files named pmap.c in the source tree, such as sys/amd64/amd64/pmap.c. In particular, look for the code that manages pv entries. Alan _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
