Re: Looking for links: Why Linux Doesn't Page Kernel Memory?

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 18:59, Russell Lewis wrote:
> I have spent some time working on AIX, which pages its kernel memory. 
>  It pins the interrupt handler functions, and any data that they access, 
> but does not pin the other code.
> 
> I'm looking for links as to why (unless I'm mistaken) Linux doesn't do 
> this, so I can better understand the system.

Memory is relatively cheap, and the complexity of such a paging kernel
is huge (you have to pin down disk driver and I/O paths for example).
Linux prefers to try to keep simple debuggable approaches to things.