On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 01:43:25PM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Rik, wli, are you going to ante up? > > And anyone else who wants to give it a shot. If you're shy, bear in mind > that there are still lots of obvious requirements not in the list. (Example: > support multiple swap partitions. Support swap partitions which are actually > files on any Linux filesystem.) Since I was asked, here goes: The memory manager shall be robust, so that the correctness of its operation is not dependent on the workload serviced. The various incremental activities of the memory manager shall be capable of being safely performed concurrently and in parallel. The memory manager shall be capable of using an arbitrary block device as the backing store for anonymous pages, including, but not limited to, loopback and network block devices. Cheers, Bill -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
