From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:50:37 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 Message-Id: <20070725235037.e59f30fc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <2c0942db0707252333uc7631fduadb080193f6ad323@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070710013152.ef2cd200.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <2c0942db0707232153j3670ef31kae3907dff1a24cb7@mail.gmail.com> <46A58B49.3050508@yahoo.com.au> <2c0942db0707240915h56e007e3l9110e24a065f2e73@mail.gmail.com> <46A6CC56.6040307@yahoo.com.au> <46A6D7D2.4050708@gmail.com> <1185341449.7105.53.camel@perkele> <46A6E1A1.4010508@yahoo.com.au> <2c0942db0707250909r435fef75sa5cbf8b1c766000b@mail.gmail.com> <20070725215717.df1d2eea.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <2c0942db0707252333uc7631fduadb080193f6ad323@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ray Lee Cc: Nick Piggin , Eric St-Laurent , Rene Herman , Jesper Juhl , ck list , Ingo Molnar , Paul Jackson , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:33:24 -0700 "Ray Lee" wrote: > > So. We can > > > > a) provide a way for userspace to reload pagecache and > > > > b) merge maps2 (once it's finished) (pokes mpm) > > > > and we're done? > > Eh, dunno. Maybe? > > We're assuming we come up with an API for userspace to get > notifications of evictions (without polling, though poll() would be > fine -- you know what I mean), and an API for re-victing those things > on demand. I was assuming that polling would work OK. I expect it would. > If you think that adding that API and maintaining it is > simpler/better than including a variation on the above hueristic I > offered, then yeah, I guess we are. It'll all have that vague > userspace s2ram odor about it, but I'm sure it could be made to work. Actually, I overdesigned the API, I suspect. What we _could_ do is to provide a way of allowing userspace to say "pretend process A touched page B": adopt its mm and go touch the page. We in fact already have that: PTRACE_PEEKTEXT. So I suspect this could all be done by polling maps2 and using PEEKTEXT. The tricky part would be working out when to poll, and when to reestablish. A neater implementation than PEEKTEXT would be to make the maps2 files writeable(!) so as a party trick you could tar 'em up and then, when you want to reestablish firefox's previous working set, do a untar in /proc/$(pidof firefox)/ -- 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: email@kvack.org