From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:20:24 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: Demand paging for memory regions In-Reply-To: <469958e00802141217i3a3d16a1k1232d69b8ba54471@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <20080209075556.63062452@bree.surriel.com> <47B2174E.5000708@opengridcomputing.com> <8A71B368A89016469F72CD08050AD334026D5C23@maui.asicdesigners.com> <47B45994.7010805@opengridcomputing.com> <469958e00802141217i3a3d16a1k1232d69b8ba54471@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Caitlin Bestler Cc: Steve Wise , Rik van Riel , steiner@sgi.com, Andrea Arcangeli , a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, izike@qumranet.com, Roland Dreier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, avi@qumranet.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com, Robin Holt , general@lists.openfabrics.org, Andrew Morton , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-ID: On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Caitlin Bestler wrote: > So suspend/resume to re-arrange pages is one thing. Suspend/resume to cover > swapping out pages so they can be reallocated is an exercise in futility. By the > time you resume the connections will be broken or at the minimum damaged. The connections would then have to be torn down before swap out and would have to be reestablished after the pages have been brought back from swap. -- 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