From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@nitnet.com.br>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Inter-zone swapping
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 14:38:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000725143833.E1396@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000722222740.A1475@cesarb.personal>; from cesarb@nitnet.com.br on Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 10:27:40PM -0300
Hi,
On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 10:27:40PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
>
> 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).
Cheers,
Stephen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-07-25 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-23 1:27 Inter-zone swapping Cesar Eduardo Barros
2000-07-25 13:38 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2000-07-25 21:46 ` Mark Hahn
2000-07-26 11:02 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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