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From: Mark Hahn <hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@nitnet.com.br>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Inter-zone swapping
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:46:10 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10007251743530.11616-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000725143833.E1396@redhat.com>

> > Then would it be useful to "swap" a page from the DMA zone into the normal zone
> > (and of course after that ending up swapping from the normal zone to the disk)?
> 
> Yes.  There are _lots_ of other possible applications for that sort of
> non-IO-consuming relocation-style swapping, including memory
> defragmentation (we really need that if we want to support things like
> large page stuff on Intel boxes for user space).

doesn't good page coloring need this ability, as well, 
to move around which physical page is backing a virtual one?
guess it depends on whether the arch does cache lookups based
on p or v addresses...

thanks, mark hahn.

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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-07-23  1:27 Cesar Eduardo Barros
2000-07-25 13:38 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-07-25 21:46   ` Mark Hahn [this message]
2000-07-26 11:02     ` Stephen C. Tweedie

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