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
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