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3.1 Data Structures

In order to implement this mechanism we have added some data structures to the original Linux kernel. In this section, we will describe each of these structures in some detail. A general picture with all the structures and most of the fields is presented in Figure 3.

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Figure 3:   Data structures needed for the compressed swap.


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Toni Cortes
Tue Apr 27 17:43:22 MET DST 1999