Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:10:09 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.ORG>, Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal for the CPU interrupt API Message-ID: <20010316121009.E29888@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200103161937.MAA16182@usr02.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 07:37:53PM %2B0000 References: <20010316073921.W29888@fw.wintelcom.net> <200103161937.MAA16182@usr02.primenet.com>
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* Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> [010316 11:38] wrote: > > I've heard that page faults in the AIX kernel are "ok" (obviously > > not when holding a mutex) because some of the kernel memory is > > actually pageable. > > Yes. > > > > Any idea on what structures they keep in pageable memory? > > > > (just wondering) > > AIX can swap anything in a segment marked "pageable", which > include most of the kernel not in the paging path. > > So can Windows 95, 98, CE, ME, NT... Once we quit relying on mutual exclusion we'll have a lot more places where we may be able to do this. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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