From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Russell Lewis <spamhole-2001-07-16@deming-os.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Looking for links: Why Linux Doesn't Page Kernel Memory?
Date: 26 Jul 2002 11:21:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1027707680.2442.33.camel@sinai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D418DFD.8000007@deming-os.org>
On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 10:59, Russell Lewis wrote:
> I have spent some time working on AIX, which pages its kernel memory.
> It pins the interrupt handler functions, and any data that they access,
> but does not pin the other code.
>
> I'm looking for links as to why (unless I'm mistaken) Linux doesn't do
> this, so I can better understand the system.
Better question is, why would we have page-able kernel memory?
It complicates kernel-space drastically for little gain. It is not that
we cannot, or there is a specific technical reason why not - just an
issue of taste. And lack of drugs.
Robert Love
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-26 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-26 17:59 Russell Lewis
2002-07-26 18:17 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-07-26 18:21 ` Robert Love [this message]
2002-07-26 19:10 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-26 19:16 ` Robert Love
2002-07-26 19:18 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-28 1:48 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-28 1:56 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-26 19:25 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-26 19:33 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-26 19:43 ` Mike Castle
2002-07-27 16:24 ` David Woodhouse
2002-07-27 16:56 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-28 0:59 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-28 20:07 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-28 0:40 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-28 0:57 ` William Lee Irwin III
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