Re: stress testing and loadavg

Mark Hemment (markhe@nextd.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 8 Aug 1997 20:12:38 +0100 (BST)

On 8 Aug 1997, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Mark Hemment <markhe@nextd.demon.co.uk> writes:
> >
> > that the page-cache will need to support dirty-pages which are not mapped
> > into any task's address space (this, currently, is not supported).. Using
> > a call-out to remove these pages [or mark them clean], is the obvious
> > solution.
> >
> Why not create a kernel-only task and map them into that task's space?

Because it is not needed.

BTW: Don't kernel-tasks use the kernel address-space? And, hence, would
be unsuitable to hold such a mapping anyway...

Regards,

markhe

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