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Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 11:24:34 -0800
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: uarea/kstack/pcb/swapout sillyness
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David Schultz wrote:
> Thus spake Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>:
> > I use "options NO_SWAPPING" to prevent swapping of upages, and would
> > like to make this the default and later remove its code and merge the
> > structs.
> 
> Please!  Handling UPAGES was a PITA for implementing swapoff(),
> and there's far too much code for swapping than swapping is worth.

It occurs to me that all this code can be reused, should anyone
implement PAE or PSE36-based use of more than 4G of RAM in 32
bit processors for FreeBSD...

-- Terry

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