From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <20040204185446.91810.qmail@web9705.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:54:46 -0800 (PST) From: Alok Mooley Subject: Re: Active Memory Defragmentation: Our implementation & problems In-Reply-To: <1075920386.27981.106.camel@nighthawk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Dave Hansen Cc: linux-kernel , linux-mm List-ID: --- Dave Hansen wrote: > The "work until we get interrupted and restart if > something changes > state" approach is very, very common. Can you give > some more examples > of just how a page fault would ruin the defrag > process? > What I mean to say is that if we have identified some pages for movement, & we get preempted, the pages identified as movable may not remain movable any more when we are rescheduled. We are left with the task of identifying new movable pages. -Alok __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ -- 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-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org