From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 14:38:33 +0100 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Subject: Re: Inter-zone swapping Message-ID: <20000725143833.E1396@redhat.com> References: <20000722222740.A1475@cesarb.personal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20000722222740.A1475@cesarb.personal>; from cesarb@nitnet.com.br on Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 10:27:40PM -0300 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Cesar Eduardo Barros Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Hi, On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 10:27:40PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: > > Then would it be useful to "swap" a page from the DMA zone into the normal zone > (and of course after that ending up swapping from the normal zone to the disk)? Yes. There are _lots_ of other possible applications for that sort of non-IO-consuming relocation-style swapping, including memory defragmentation (we really need that if we want to support things like large page stuff on Intel boxes for user space). Cheers, Stephen -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/