On November 23, 2001 02:23 pm, Rik van Riel wrote: > OK, here are a few more things: > > - ability to free up low memory pages in a highmem machine > ==> more generalised for NUMA, the ability to move any > (well most) page out of the way if required > > - swap over network, for diskless boxes >From our discussion on the channel: - every cache applies pressure to every other cache 'fair' and 'load-dependent' way /me notices a relative scarcity of functional requirements by riel in the thread -- Daniel -- 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/