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Date:      Fri, 16 Mar 2001 19:37:53 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein)
Cc:        mjacob@feral.com (Matthew Jacob), benno@FreeBSD.ORG (Benno Rice), dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson), jhb@FreeBSD.ORG (John Baldwin), arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Proposal for the CPU interrupt API
Message-ID:  <200103161937.MAA16182@usr02.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010316073921.W29888@fw.wintelcom.net> from "Alfred Perlstein" at Mar 16, 2001 07:39:21 AM

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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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