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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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  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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