From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 21 15:58:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA04604 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 15:58:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA04599 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 15:58:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA24512; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 15:44:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdU24508; Tue Jul 21 22:44:06 1998 Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 15:44:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: zhihuizhang cc: hackers Subject: Re: Questions on inactive page queue In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG iare you getting answers to these questions? I ask, because usually it used to be john Dyson who would answer them but now that he has gon to work on different things I want to makwe sure that your questions are not just getting dropped.. julian On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, zhihuizhang wrote: > > Hi, > > (1) Why we set a target for the inactive page queue? Who can manipulate > the pages on the inactive page queue? How to guarantee that a page won't > move from the inactive queue while paging out? > > (2) I find that the VM fault routine vm_fault() can call tsleep() to > sleep! This contradict my knowledge that interrupt routine can never go to > sleep. How can this happen? > > Any help is appreciated. > > > -------------------------------------------------- > | Zhihui Zhang, http://cs.binghamton.edu/~zzhang | > | Dept. of Computer Science, SUNY at Binghamton | > -------------------------------------------------- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message