From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu (valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 10:46:37 -0500 Subject: deferred pages In-Reply-To: References: <20181028163329.GA8104@Ubuntu-DTI> <20181028185140.GB8104@Ubuntu-DTI> Message-ID: <19949.1542728797@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 10:16:41 -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey said: > First reference is near the top under "AIX 4.3.2+ Deferred Paging > #2) AIX 5L Differences Guide Version 5.3 Edition I feel sorry for anybody still running either of these AIX versions (4.3.2 is late 1998, 5.3 is from 2005). Word of warning - AIX is *highly* different from Linux - it's even diverged an amazing amount internally from its SYSV Unix roots. I wouldn't take any AIX internals documentation as helpful for Linux, unless you also found the Bach book on the SYSV kernel and Kirk McKusic's book on the BSD4.3 kernel useful in understanding the Linux kernel.... I've done AIX for a living from (roughly) the RT days, through AIX/370 (now *that* was a beta test that generated a wealth of bar stories :), and AIX 3 through AIX 5 on RS6K/Power based systems.. A lot of the stuff they do doesn't make any sense at all unless you know how IBM's mainframe systems do things (And yes, I spent a number of years doing OS/VS1/HASP and VM (SP, HPO, and XA variants) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Word of warning - AIX is *highly* different from Linux - it's even diverg= ed an amazing amount internally from its SYSV Unix roots. I wouldn't take any = AIX internals documentation as helpful for Linux, unless you also found the B= ach book on the SYSV kernel and Kirk McKusic's book on the BSD4.3 kernel usef= ul in understanding the Linux kernel.... I've done AIX for a living from (roughly) the RT days, through AIX/370 (n= ow *that* was a beta test that generated a wealth of bar stories :), and AIX= 3 through AIX 5 on RS6K/Power based systems.. A lot of the stuff they do do= esn't make any sense at all unless you know how IBM's mainframe systems do thin= gs (And yes, I spent a number of years doing OS/VS1/HASP and VM (SP, HPO, an= d XA variants) --==_Exmh_1542728797_2819P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Exmh version 2.9.0 11/07/2018 iQEVAwUBW/QsXY0DS38y7CIcAQIA4QgAoiDIhtK1jxWJXPQpKmYv/yBQXdTMUkES IZn81BkRROxBZLPDzW0cgFn/f3jXblgpZEyvcE1ujOGKQxiDnVjs1wx1tIAhJG/G U2grTsBWYs/x0e0MwD0k+BZ82FOGfnSKrXy+gjOtjbYa1hSXZpnp7McRx+t9unTv pSjbSZRfjkiCgdsB2tHVYdxAie60/FE27Xv0cuEkvTQrz9q8yTCUZmJyvwmz4HVp pu94rZ3awPIA8Dt6dbevSVVVbdfx2FjbNs3wKNX8KRVHzSwOcVkFR9bS2eFoBq1Y D4ufI9SAdZJySzgasdOE6sN6gV1WpYzxLe4rSkNpmUfdSIh7i/hJbw== =LO+k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1542728797_2819P-- --===============3415159200097802464== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies --===============3415159200097802464==--