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Subject: Re: mm question
To: volodya@mindspring.com
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 21:42:50 +0000 (GMT)
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> Right, but instead of trying to balance cache available memory and swap
> my swapper will only be concerned whether the page can be evicted and
> whether it is from the address range I want.

You want to rewrite the entire vm to have back pointers ? Right now you
can't find pages in an address range. Its all driven from the virtual side
without reverse lookup tables.

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