From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 16 12:10:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC36037B71C; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:10:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f2GKA9n21686; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:10:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:10:09 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Terry Lambert Cc: Matthew Jacob , Benno Rice , Doug Rabson , John Baldwin , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal for the CPU interrupt API Message-ID: <20010316121009.E29888@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20010316073921.W29888@fw.wintelcom.net> <200103161937.MAA16182@usr02.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103161937.MAA16182@usr02.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 07:37:53PM +0000 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Terry Lambert [010316 11:38] wrote: > > 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... Once we quit relying on mutual exclusion we'll have a lot more places where we may be able to do this. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message