From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: jcabezas@ac.upc.edu
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Selective swap out of processes
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:40:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1188578404.28903.258.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49e98fc50708301650q611f9b0fi762f9c5d8d5fae01@mail.gmail.com>
Isn't the whole point of get_user_pages() so that the kernel doesn't
mess with those pages, and the driver or whatever can have free reign?
Seems to me that you're pinning the pages with get_user_pages(), then
trying to get the kernel to swap them out. Not a good idea. ;)
-- Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-31 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-28 16:54 Javier Cabezas Rodríguez
2007-08-29 2:37 ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-29 10:37 ` Javier Cabezas Rodríguez
2007-08-29 18:06 ` Javier Cabezas Rodríguez
2007-08-29 22:01 ` Dave Hansen
2007-08-30 7:13 ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-30 23:41 ` Javier Cabezas Rodríguez
2007-08-30 23:47 ` Javier Cabezas Rodríguez
2007-08-30 23:50 ` Javier Cabezas Rodríguez
2007-08-31 0:34 ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-31 16:40 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2007-09-08 1:45 ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-30 7:09 ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-29 5:18 ` Christoph Lameter
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