On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 03:49:30PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > There is a proposal (several it seems) to make 2.5 replace the conventional
> > unix swap with a filesystem of backing store for anonymous objects. That will
> > mean each object has i
Hi,
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 03:49:30PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> There is a proposal (several it seems) to make 2.5 replace the conventional
> unix swap with a filesystem of backing store for anonymous objects. That will
> mean each object has its own vm area and inode and thus we can start blowi
> compared to the complexity that gets added to the kernel. We can keep the
> kernel simpler(and faster) without having parts of drivers pageable. But one
> more issue is having the page tables pageable...
At the moment we can almost go a stage further - when we are short of memory
we can vic
> > VMS does this. It at least used to have a great tendency to crash
> > itself, because it swapped out something that was called from a driver
> > that was called by the swapper -- resulting in deadlock. You need
> > iron discipline for this to work right in all circumstances.
>
> Actually, VM
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Oliver Neukum did have cause to say:
> > load/init/etc. Hardware setup tends to only happen once..)
>
> No they can't. Modules can't be finegrained enough to do this without wasting
> more memory due to fragmentation than you'd gain.
Actually, don't they do this -already-
Hi,
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:21:17PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Certain parts of drivers could get the __pageable prefix or so
> > (like the __init parts of drivers which get removed) for letting
> > the paging-code know that it can be discared if memory-pressure
> > demands it.
>
> VMS
H. Peter Anvin writes:
> By author:"Heusden, Folkert van" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Would anyone be intrested (besides me) in a kernel which can page
...
>> Certain parts of drivers could get the __pageable prefix or so
> VMS does this. It at least used to have a great tendency to crash
> itse
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author:"Heusden, Folkert van" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Would anyone be intrested (besides me) in a kernel which can page
> out certain parts of itself? The kernel should be in some kind of
> vmlinux-ish (as in: uncompressed) fo
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Heusden, Folkert van did have cause to say:
> I would think is usable (for example) for my 8MB ram laptop.
> Anyone any thoughts on this?
I'm not a kernel hacker, but I've got some thoughts on this:
1> Modules (with the autoloader) can do that for anything not necessary to
Would anyone be intrested (besides me) in a kernel which can page
out certain parts of itself? The kernel should be in some kind of
vmlinux-ish (as in: uncompressed) format on disk for on-demand
re-loading of pages which are discarded.
Certain parts of drivers could get the __pageable prefix or so
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