Re: [RFC] 2.3/4 VM queues idea

Jamie Lokier
2000-05-26T20:41:13Z

Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> > The stacked private address_spaces I described don't have to be shared
> > between address_spaces in a single mm. You can have one per vma --
> > that's simple but maybe wasteful.
>
> That's basically exactly what davem's stuff did.

Ok, I shall look more carefully at davem's code.
Is this the most recent one?:

> Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 11:00:34 +0100
> Subject: [davem@redhat.com: my paging work]
> From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
>
> Hi,
>
> Here's davem's page-based swapout snapshot. It's UNFINISHED + DANGEROUS
> WILL_EAT_YOUR_DISK (his words!), but somebody may want to archive this
> and pick up on the work in 2.5.
>
> --Stephen
>
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