From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zaitsev <peter@mysql.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
andrea@suse.de
Subject: Re: VM Problems in 2.6.7 (Too active OOM Killer)
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 06:29:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040720132930.GB1255@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040718161338.GC12527@tpkurt.garloff.de>
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 06:54:31PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> The only method the kernel now has to relocate userspace memory is IO.
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 06:13:38PM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> But that could be changed. If we can swap out and modify the page
> tables (to mark the page paged out) and page in to some other
> location (and modify the pagetables again), we can as well just copy
> a page and modify the page tables.
> Any fundamental reason why that should not be possible?
No fundamental reasons, no. Just social ones (holy penguin pee).
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-20 13:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-14 2:23 VM Problems in 2.6.7 (Too active OOM Killer) Peter Zaitsev
2004-07-14 2:40 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-14 3:20 ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-07-14 3:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-14 3:44 ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-07-14 4:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-14 4:22 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-14 4:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-14 4:17 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-14 23:47 ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-07-14 22:44 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-15 0:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-15 0:30 ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-07-15 0:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-15 1:54 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-15 2:13 ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-07-15 2:33 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-15 2:39 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-15 2:44 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-13 22:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-19 20:27 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-07-18 16:13 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-07-20 9:14 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-07-20 13:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-20 13:53 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-20 13:29 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-07-19 20:21 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-07-15 0:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-15 0:43 ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-07-15 0:43 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-15 1:04 ` Peter Zaitsev
2004-07-15 1:29 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-07-14 3:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
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