On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 04:49:33PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > None of them seem very attractive to me. I would prefer to just > > not support external accesses keeping things lean and fast. > > That is a surprising statement given what we just discussed. Things > are not lean and fast but weirdly screwed up. The policy layer is > significantly impacted by historical contingencies rather than designed in > a clean way. It cannot even deliver the functionality it was designed to > deliver (see BIND).
That seems like a unfair description to me. While things are not perfect they are definitely not as bad as you're trying to paint them. > > > Individual physical page migration is quite different from > > address space migration. > > Address space migration? That is something new in this discussion. So > could you explain what you mean by that? I have looked at page migration > in a variety of contexts and could not see much difference. MCE page migration just puts a physical page to somewhere else. memory hotplug migration does the same for multiple pages from different processes. Page migration like you're asking for migrates whole processes. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
