On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 14:56, Al Hopper wrote: > On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Lei Jin wrote: > > > Two questions: > > > > 1. What page fault happens, how does opensolaris pick the page frame to > > establish the mapping? I mean which physical frame will be picked? What is > > the algorithm here? Is the algorithm like page coloring implemented? > > > > 2. How does the opensolaris maintain the free page list? > > > > Any information will be helpful. Thanks! > > I see Michael Corcoran already provided you with some detailed > information. Don't forget about Jim Mauro and Richard McDougalls > *excellent* Solaris Internals 2nd Edition book. See: > http://www.solarisinternals.com > Thanks Al.
I didn't even think about that and it'll make things quite a bit easier to understand than my quick explanations. I took a look at the first edition (as my copy of the second hasn't come in yet) and the organization of the freelists did not seem to be discussed much, but there was an in-depth description of the page coloring algorithms. --Mike > Regards, > > Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 Timezone: US CDT > OpenSolaris.Org Community Advisory Board (CAB) Member - Apr 2005 > OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Feb 2006 > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-code mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
