From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:40:56 -0800 From: Paul Jackson Subject: Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 7/7] mm: manual page migration -- sys_page_migrate Message-Id: <20050215074056.79781687.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <1108407043.6154.49.camel@localhost> References: <20050212032535.18524.12046.26397@tomahawk.engr.sgi.com> <20050212032620.18524.15178.29731@tomahawk.engr.sgi.com> <1108242262.6154.39.camel@localhost> <20050214135221.GA20511@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com> <1108407043.6154.49.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Dave Hansen Cc: holt@sgi.com, raybry@sgi.com, taka@valinux.co.jp, hugh@veritas.com, akpm@osdl.org, marcello@cyclades.com, raybry@austin.rr.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Robin wrote: > Requiring that the process is stopped will somewhat limit the use of > this API outside of the HPC space where so much control can be had over > the processes. Good point. Hopefully we can find a way to design this system call so that it does not require suspension. Some uses of it may well choose to suspend, but that's a user space choice. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401 -- 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