Subject: removing swap (was Re: userid partitioned swap spaces.)
To: Guenther Grau <Guenther.Grau@bk.bosch.de>
From: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/15/1998 08:24:04
Guenther Grau writes:
> (Offtopic :
> IMHO, we should have a mechanism, that allows us to mark a certain
> swap partition for removal. Then try to move all allocated pages
> into memory and have the kernel/pagedaemon allocate a different
> page on different swap space, thus freeing the marked partition
> for removal. )
this code is written, just awaiting review (and possibly minor cleanup)
before it goes in. hopefully this will be finished up in january.
-Chuck