[clug] to swap or not to swap that is the question

[Steven Hanley]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 11:39:27PM +1000, Sam Couter wrote:
> Michael Cohen <michael.cohen at netspeed.com.au> wrote:
> > Sam,
> > 
> > As far as I understand it kernel memory is never swapped - hence NFS code 
> > would never swap because it lives in kernel space. Only userland apps swap.
> 
> The Linux kernel has both swappable and non-swappable pages. Parts of
> the kernel can indeed be swapped out.

Huh what

since when?

AFAIR this is one thing Linus has been adamant about for a long long time,
do not add the complexity of swappable kernel code to the kernel.

There was once upon a time the user space nfs server, however the nfs file
system in the linux kernel has always been kernel space, of course I guess
someone could implement User Space NFS with FUSE or something easily
maybe... <eg>

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