Re: VMM: syscall for reordering pages in vm

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Mon Nov 08 2004 - 07:07:07 EST


On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 11:51 +0100, Willibald Krenn wrote:
> Quick Summary:
>
> (Good or Bad?) Idea of implementing a syscall that allows
> for virtual memory page exchange by modifying the physical<->virtual
> page mapping. Intended usage: Moving pages in virtual memory without
> the need to copy them. Feedback welcome!

eh isn't this already possible with mmap and mremap ?

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