Re: who pages the pager?

[Simon Nieuviarts]

Le Mardi 18 Octobre 2005 17:23, Neal H. Walfield a écrit :
> At Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:49:16 +0200,
>
> ness wrote:
> > How can a complete task be paged out? I say, the pager of the task has
> > always to be asked, but the pager is _part_ of the task.
>
> Good question.  If the pager is not wired then it needs some support
> from an external task which is able to page the pager's code and data.
> This task may or may not be wired, however, eventually, somewhere up
> the paging hierarchy, something needs to be wired.
>
> The next question would be: what does this mechanism look like?  I
> don't yet have a good idea.
>
> Thanks,
> Neal

And what if the pager does not answer ? I think the pager can only give hints 
to an external paging task that takes the real decisions. The pager can not 
be considered as reliable.

Simon.