Re: New syscall (rough draft), swap_out_pid()

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl)
Tue, 17 Mar 1998 18:58:21 +0100 (MET)


On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Balaji Srinivasan wrote:

> I dont think this would work as you expect it to...as swap_out_process
> does not swap_out the whole process, but just one page...am I wrong here?

No, your completely right... What would work is:
while (p->mm->rss) {
int gfp = GFP_SWAPOUT_NOW_YOU_DAMNIT;
swapout_process(p, gfp);
}

Or something like this anyway :-)

Rik.
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