Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 17:16:57 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: zhihuizhang <bf20761@binghamton.edu> Cc: hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Questions on inactive page queue Message-ID: <199807220016.RAA22239@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Jul 1998 16:52:12 EDT." <Pine.SOL.L3.93.980721164337.25658A-100000@bingsun2>
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>(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? The main purpose of the inactive queue is for holding modified pages until they are cleaned, but it is also used as a way of pessimizing a page for reclaimation. The active and inactive queues are otherwise identical as far as how you must handle the pages on them. >(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? A page fault isn't a device interrupt - at least not in this context. The process is put to sleep so that the system can have time to resolve the page fault (perhaps requiring disk IO or the reclaimation of pages from another process) before it is resumed. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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