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Date:      Wed, 18 Apr 2001 20:45:04 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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:  <42007.987619504@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:24:26 PDT." <3ADDCDCA.86D1B3BE@elischer.org> 

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In message <3ADDCDCA.86D1B3BE@elischer.org>, Julian Elischer writes:

>If we merged vnodes and vm objects,
>then if devices were not vnodes, how would you represent
>a vm area that maps a device?

You would use a VM object of course, but it would be a special
kind of VM object, just like today...

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