From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 14:11:18 -0200 From: Marcelo Tosatti Subject: Re: page migration\ Message-ID: <20050104161118.GD7399@logos.cnet> References: <20050103171344.GD14886@logos.cnet> <41D9AC2D.90409@sgi.com> <20050103183811.GE14886@logos.cnet> <20050105.004221.41649018.taka@valinux.co.jp> <41DAD393.1030009@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41DAD393.1030009@sgi.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ray Bryant Cc: Hirokazu Takahashi , haveblue@us.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:34:11AM -0600, Ray Bryant wrote: > >>> > >>>Absolutely. I guess the only question is when to propose the merge with > >>>-mm > >>>etc. Is your defragmentation code in a good enough state to be proposed > >>>as > >>>well, or should we wait a bit? > >> > >>No, we have to wait - its not ready yet. > >> > >>But it is really simple and small, as soon as the "asynchronous" memory > >>migration is working. > >> > >> > >>>I think we need at least one user of the code before we can propose that > >>>the > >>>memory migration code be merged, or do you think we the arguments are > >>>strong > >>>enough we can proceed with users "pending"? > >> > >>IMO the arguments are strong enough that we can proceed with the current > >>state. > >>I'm all for it. > >> > >>Andrew knows the importance and the users of the memory migration > >>infrastructure. > >> > >>Dave, Hirokazu, what are your thoughts on this > > > > > >Andrew is interested in our approach. > >With Ray's help, it will proceed faster and become stable soon:) > > > > > >>Shall we CC Andrew? > >> > > > > > > If it is ok with everyone, I will email Andrew and see how he'd like to > proceed on this, whether he'd prefer we contribute a solid "user" of the > page migration code with a merged page migration patch, or if it would be > ok to > submit the page migration code stand alone, given that there are multiple > users "pending". > > Of course, I come to this effort late in the game, and if anyone else would > prefer to do that instead, I will happily oblige them. Please do that publically on linux-kernel - Dave has been doing most of the hardwork but I do not think he will mind if you start the discussion with Andrew. Thanks Ray! -- 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