[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] # Design Mach's [[microkernel/mach/external_pager_mechanism]]. Mach [[microkernel/mach/IPC]]'s [[microkernel/mach/ipc/sequence_numbering]]. [GNU Hurd Reference Manual: 4.2 Pager Library](http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/doc/hurd_5.html#SEC32). ## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-03-04 mcsim: is it correct that a pager (as from libpager) object is created per file ? braunr: hello. Yes. braunr: At least this applies to ext2fs ## [[open_issues/multithreading]] ### Writeback: Writing Out Dirty Pages #### IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-03-04 and btw, here is a little update about my roadmap: while reading mcsim's patches, i've got to know libpager a bit more, and i think it's perfectly possible to add writeback throttling without a heavy rework good :) so i intend to work on that after the pager related patches (large store and neal's one) are merged #### Related * LWN, Jonathan Corbet, [*No-I/O dirty throttling*](http://lwn.net/Articles/456904/), 2011-08-31. # Open Issues * [[open_issues/linux_vmsig]]