From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 16:16:47 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20040701.161647.119874601.taka@valinux.co.jp> Subject: [patch] new memory hotremoval patch for hugetlbpages From: Hirokazu Takahashi In-Reply-To: <20040630111719.EBACF70A92@sv1.valinux.co.jp> References: <20040630111719.EBACF70A92@sv1.valinux.co.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lhms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: iwamoto@valinux.co.jp List-ID: Hello, > this is an updated version of my memory hotremoval patch. > I'll only include the main patch which contains page remapping code. > The other two files, which haven't changed much from April, can be > found at http://people.valinux.co.jp/~iwamoto/mh.html . (snip) > My patch supports remapping of normal pages, Takahashi's hugepage > remapping patch will be posted in a few days. I also post new hugepage remapping patches which is against linux-2.6.7. I have change it to use objrmap so that the code become clean. The patches can be downloaded from http://people.valinux.co.jp/~taka/hpageremap.html . There may remain some bugs. if you find them, would you let me know. > I will be working on the following items. > > 1. Prototype implementation of memsection support. > It seems some people wants to hotremove small regions of memory > rather than zones or nodes. A prototype implementation will > show how Takahashi's hugetlb page code can be used for such a > purpose. This is my interst and I'll work on it. > 2. Handling of pages with dirty buffers without writing them back. > This is file system specific. I plan to do against ext2 and > ext3. Thank you, Hirokazu Takahashi. -- 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