Anonymous Page Cache

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Anonymous Page Cache gives backstores to anonymous pages. For those dynamically generated but rarely used/modified data structures, it tries to save them on disk and load them on demand. The idea is similar to a swap file except:

  • It's in userland and requires no special privilege.
  • The timing and scope to save/swap out is determined by programmer, rather than OS.

Implementation

References

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