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SubjectRe: udev sysfs docs Re: State of devfs in 2.6?
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:42:21AM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc> writes:
> > I was under the impression, that on the x86 processors, it is not
> > possible to have more than ~640Kb of 'unswappable'
> > memory. Everything else *is* swappable.
> Swappable or not doesn't depend on physical memory address. It
> depends on whether the kernel memory management allows it or not. No
> Linux kernels to date will swap out kernel memory. The swappability
> of a page is determined by some flags when it is allocated.

Is this something that should be fixed? Or is this a related issue where
the perceived gain is small enough that it isn't worth tackling, or modules
is the recommended and desirable solution to this problem?

Is Microsoft Windows different in this regard?

mark

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