From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.11] helo=sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AlJRb-0003Sp-A0 for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:59:15 -0800 Received: from erizo.shearer.org ([210.10.97.33] helo=shearer.org) by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.30) id 1AlJRa-0001LX-TB for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:59:15 -0800 From: Dan Shearer Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Swapping directly to host swap area? Message-ID: <20040127030119.GV4203@erizo.shearer.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: The user-mode Linux development list List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:31:19 +1030 To: William Stearns Cc: ML-uml-devel On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 06:34:12PM -0500, William Stearns wrote: > > When a VM needs to swap out, is there some way the UML kernel > could send that sector directly to the host swap area instead of running > its own swap? But that would involve making it possible for an ordinary userspace process (for example, /bin/ls) to affect what the VM is doing on the host. Jeff's /dev/anon and ubd=mmap is all about addressing your problem from the point of view of memory utilisation. See http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/devanon.html -- Dan Shearer dan@shearer.org ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel