Re: manual page migration -- issue list

Ray Bryant
2005-02-16T04:04:13Z

Robin Holt wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 05:17:09PM -0800, Paul Jackson wrote:
>
>>As a straw man, let me push the factored migration call to the
>>extreme, and propose a call:
>>
>> sys_page_migrate(pid, oldnode, newnode)
>
>
> Go look at the mappings in /proc/<pid>/maps once and you will see
> how painful this can make things. Especially for an applications
> with shared mappings. Overlapping nodes with the above will make
> a complete mess of your memory placement.
>
> Robin
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So lets address that issue again, since I think that is now the
heart of the matter.

Exactly why do we need to support the case where the set of old
nodes and new nodes overlap? I agree it is more general, but if
we drop that, I think we are one step closer to getting agreement
as to what the page migration system call interface should be.

Do we have a case, say from IRIX, of why supporting this kind of
migration is necessary?

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