From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:27:12 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] beat kswapd with the proverbial clue-bat Message-ID: <20040915132712.GA6158@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <413AA7B2.4000907@yahoo.com.au> <20040904230210.03fe3c11.davem@davemloft.net> <413AAF49.5070600@yahoo.com.au> <413AE6E7.5070103@yahoo.com.au> <1094405830.2809.8.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Nick Piggin , "David S. Miller" , akpm@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 5 September 2004 10:58:07 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > well... we have a reverse mapping now. What is stopping us from doing > > physical defragmentation ? > > Nothing but replacement policy, really, and the fact that not everything > is rmappable. What about pointers? I have an ethernet driver that hands pointers to physical memory pages to hardware. Would be fun if someone defragmented those pages. ;) Jorn -- It's just what we asked for, but not what we want! -- anonymous -- 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