Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:40:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:40:45 -0400 Received: from a.smtp-out.sonic.net ([208.201.224.38]:12470 "HELO a.smtp-out.sonic.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:40:44 -0400 X-envelope-info: Newsgroups: local.ml.linux.kernel From: dalgoda@ix.netcom.com (Mike Castle) Subject: Re: Looking for links: Why Linux Doesn't Page Kernel Memory? References: <3D418DFD.8000007@deming-os.org> <1027712005.14773.12.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Organization: House of Linux X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test74 (May 26, 2000) Path: not-for-mail Originator: nexus@thune.mrc.org (Mike Castle) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:43:56 -0700 Message-ID: To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1068 Lines: 23 In article <1027712005.14773.12.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>, Alan Cox wrote: >On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 18:59, Russell Lewis wrote: >> It pins the interrupt handler functions, and any data that they access, >> but does not pin the other code. >is huge (you have to pin down disk driver and I/O paths for example). After these, how much is left to page out, really? Network drivers (unless paging over the wire)? Video drivers (ok, might be nice to page out NVidia :-)? Just about everything else can actually be removed using loadable modules, correct? mrc -- Mike Castle dalgoda@ix.netcom.com www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different"); -- gcc - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/