On 11/6/07, Paul Lalonde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have an application I'm building which requires OS support to allow > a user-space function to fill a page on page-faults. Ideally, I > could reserve a chunk of address space but not back it with memory, > and then on fault my handler would serve out data from some small > cache of user-managed physical pages. > > My google-fu has been weak in finding such a system-level API in any > OS. Has this got a name I should be searching on? I can't believe > no-one has implemented user-level page replacement.
you can look at the code in this: http://mbgokhale.org/rminnich/job/zounds/zx.tar docs are at : http://mbgokhale.org/rminnich/job/zounds/zounds.ps i still get the occasional note from someone who is using it. ron
