linux-kernel - Re: is linux still a none swappable kernel?

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Message-ID: <20070513184522.GA9819@osiris.ibm.com>
Date:	Sun, 13 May 2007 20:45:22 +0200
From:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
To:	Rodrigo Amestica <ramestic@...o.edu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: is linux still a none swappable kernel?

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 01:12:12PM -0400, Rodrigo Amestica wrote:
> In some older posts I have read that memory allocations via kmalloc
> and vmalloc are not swappable, that is, these memory chunks are not
> paged out to swap area. Is this still the case with linux kernel 2.6?

Yes.
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