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From: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, andrew.c.morrow@gmail.com,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] add MAP_UNLOCKED mmap flag
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:07:23 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1263910043.2163.24.camel@barrios-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100119075205.GI14345@redhat.com>

On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 09:52 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:

> In my case (virtualization) I want to test/profile guest under heavy swapping
> of a guests memory, so I intentionally create memory shortage by creating

You mean "guest memory" that is area emulated DRAM in qemu?
It is anonymous vma. 

> guest much large then host memory, but I want system to swap out only
> guest's memory.

Couldn't you use MADV_SEQUENTIAL on only guest memory area?
It doesn't make side effect about readahead since it's anon area. 
And it would make do best effort to swap out guest's memory.


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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-19 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-18 13:37 Gleb Natapov
2010-01-18 14:09 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-01-18 14:19   ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-18 14:32     ` Alan Cox
2010-01-18 14:35       ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-18 14:49       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-18 15:01         ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-18 15:06           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-18 15:11             ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-18 15:14               ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-18 15:19                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-18 15:24                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-18 15:41                     ` Alan Cox
2010-01-18 15:44                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-18 17:11                 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-18 15:14             ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-19  0:12               ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-01-18 16:05     ` Pekka Enberg
2010-01-18 17:08       ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-18 18:09         ` Pekka Enberg
2010-01-18 18:19           ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-18 19:10             ` Alan Cox
2010-01-19  7:17               ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-19  7:37                 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-01-19  7:52                   ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-19  8:07                     ` Pekka Enberg
2010-01-19  8:26                       ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-19  8:44                         ` Pekka Enberg
2010-01-19 10:40                           ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-19 12:48                           ` Minchan Kim
2010-01-19 13:18                             ` Pekka Enberg
2010-01-19 13:26                               ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-20  0:24                           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-01-19 11:54                     ` Alan Cox
2010-01-19 12:07                       ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-19 13:21                         ` Alan Cox
2010-01-19 14:07                     ` Minchan Kim [this message]
2010-01-19 14:14                       ` Gleb Natapov

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