Linux virtual memory manager

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Date:	Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:31:12 +0200
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Hi,

Can someone point me to a document explaining the differences between
the 2.4 and the 2.6 virtual memory manager. Particularly I am looking
for the function/s that replaces the try_to_swap_out() in the 2.6.x
series of kernels.

Thanks
Josef
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