Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 21:27:53 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, David Xu <bsddiy@21cn.com> Subject: Re: vm balance Message-ID: <3ADE6949.C07B46D2@elischer.org> References: <42362.987619998@critter>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
> In message <200104181811.f3IIBJp25644@earth.backplane.com>, Matt Dillon writes:
>
> > Actually, all this talk does imply that VM objects should be independant
> > of vnodes. Devices may need to mmap (requiring a VM object), but
> > don't need all the baggage of a vnode. Julian is absolutely correct
> > there.
>
> Well, you have other VM Objects which doesn't map to vnodes: swap
> backed anonymous objects for instance.
there has been talk of MAKING those have a vnode by making a swapfs.
>
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