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Subject: Re: Loadable VM pager
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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...