From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 09:40:26 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [Lhms-devel] Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc3 1/8] mm: manual page migration-rc2 -- xfs-extended-attributes-rc2.patch Message-ID: <20050528084026.GA18380@infradead.org> References: <4281F650.2020807@engr.sgi.com> <20050511125932.GW25612@wotan.suse.de> <42825236.1030503@engr.sgi.com> <20050511193207.GE11200@wotan.suse.de> <20050512104543.GA14799@infradead.org> <428E6427.7060401@engr.sgi.com> <429217F8.5020202@mwwireless.net> <4292B361.80500@engr.sgi.com> <42941E5D.5060606@engr.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42941E5D.5060606@engr.sgi.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ray Bryant Cc: Christoph Lameter , Steve Longerbeam , Christoph Hellwig , Andi Kleen , Ray Bryant , Hirokazu Takahashi , Marcelo Tosatti , Dave Hansen , linux-mm , Nathan Scott , Ray Bryant , lhms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Jes Sorensen List-ID: On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 01:42:37AM -0500, Ray Bryant wrote: > Now a workable solution might be that we decide to not migrate shared > pages that are executable (or part of a vma marked executable). That > would handle the shared library and shared (system) executable case > quite nicely. It wouldn't handle the case of a shared user executable > that is only used by the processes being migrated, since it will be > shared an executable, but should be migrated, and we will decide by > the above rule not to migrate it. I don't think that's a good idea. It would place arbitrary policy into the kernel, something we try to avoid. -- 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