Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 01:08:56 -0700 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@free.fr> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loadable VM pager Message-ID: <20030823080856.GA8081@HAL9000.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20030816230358.B5747@armor.free.fr> References: <20030816230358.B5747@armor.free.fr>
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On Sat, Aug 16, 2003, Nicolas Souchu wrote: > I'm wondering if being able to load dynamically a pager in FreeBSD VM > would be worth and even possible with kobj. Of course that would > introduce some overhead to the page fault handling... Presently, the VM code has a number of special cases based on pager type, and this organization does not lend itself well to object-oriented techniques. At a minimum, those cases would have to be fixed, with consideration to the performance consequences. It's an interesting idea, nonetheless...
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