Re: multi page memory object operations

2017-07-31 Thread Brent W. Baccala
On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 5:21 AM, Richard Braun wrote: > On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 10:20:55PM -0400, Brent W. Baccala wrote: > > > Does anybody know the history of multi page requests? Was it ever > > implemented in the kernel? > > Maksym Planeta worked on it as part of the 2012 GSoC. I tried to re

Re: multi page memory object operations

2017-07-31 Thread Richard Braun
On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 10:20:55PM -0400, Brent W. Baccala wrote: > It seems that the current libpager's data-request and data-unlock routines > only handle single page requests, while the Mach documentation suggests > that the kernel can make multi page requests using these routines. No, the kern

multi page memory object operations

2017-07-30 Thread Brent W. Baccala
Hi - I've found something puzzling while working on the libpager code. It seems that the current libpager's data-request and data-unlock routines only handle single page requests, while the Mach documentation suggests that the kernel can make multi page requests using these routines. Looking at