Re: [PATCH] virtual mapping (swap) support for ramfs (for 2.5/2.6)

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Sat Jun 03 2000 - 15:02:07 EST


On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Matt Yourst wrote:

> Here's my partially-working patch that adds "virtual mapping"
> support to ramfs. This is a *very* early version of it, since it

It's also pretty complex.

Maybe it would be easier if try_to_swap_out would just
unmap the page and set a special flag in the page, and
then shrink_mmap() could push the page to disk.

(proper write clustering for that will be implemented
in 2.5, possibly by me)

regards,

Rik

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