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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Proposal for the CPU interrupt API
To: bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 19:37:53 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: mjacob@feral.com (Matthew Jacob), benno@FreeBSD.ORG (Benno Rice),
	dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson), jhb@FreeBSD.ORG (John Baldwin),
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> I've heard that page faults in the AIX kernel are "ok" (obviously
> not when holding a mutex) because some of the kernel memory is
> actually pageable.

Yes.


> Any idea on what structures they keep in pageable memory?
> 
> (just wondering)

AIX can swap anything in a segment marked "pageable", which
include most of the kernel not in the paging path.

So can Windows 95, 98, CE, ME, NT...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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