On Thursday 18 October 2007 8:00:49 am Rogier Wolff wrote: > So... IMHO, it would be useful to implement something that pages out > chunks of memory larger than a single hardware page. This would reduce > the size of the memory management tables (*), as well as improve disk > throughput if things DO come to paging....
I believe that was more or less the topic of this paper: http://kernel.org/doc/ols/2006/ols2006v2-pages-73-78.pdf Although these seem sort of tangentially related: http://kernel.org/doc/ols/2006/ols2006v1-pages-369-384.pdf http://kernel.org/doc/ols/2006/ols2006v2-pages-125-130.pdf Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
