Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:24:26 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, David Xu <bsddiy@21cn.com> Subject: Re: vm balance Message-ID: <3ADDCDCA.86D1B3BE@elischer.org> References: <38778.987605692@critter>
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You can mmap() devices and you can mmap files..
you cannot mmap FIFOs or sockets.
for this reason I think that devices are still well represented by
vnodes. If we merged vnodes and vm objects,
then if devices were not vnodes, how would you represent
a vm area that maps a device?
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