Re: Why *not* rmap, anyway?

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Christian Smith wrote:

> The question becomes, how much work would it be to rip out the Linux MM
> piece-meal, and replace it with an implementation of UVM?

I doubt we want the Mach pmap layer.

It should be much easier to reimplement the pageout parts of
the BSD memory management on top of a simpler reverse mapping
system.

You can get that code at  http://surriel.com/patches/

cheers,

Rik
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