Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19

[Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>]

> Actually, what I was thinking is that if you use the swsusp infrastructure to 
> suspend all processes, all dma, quiesce the heck out of the devices, and 
> _then_ try to move the kernel...  Well, you at least have a much more 
> controlled problem.  Yeah, it's pretty darn intrusive, but if you're doing 
> "suspend to ram" perhaps the downtime could be only 5 or 10 seconds...

I don't think suspend to ram for a memory hotplug remove would be acceptable to 
users.  The other methods add some complexity to the kernel, but are transparent 
to userspace.  Downtime of 5 to 10 seconds is really quite a bit of downtime.

> I don't know how much of the problem that leaves unsolved, though.

It would still require a remappable kernel.  And seems intuitively to be wrong 
to me.  But if you want to try it out I won't stop you.  It might even work.