Re: manual page migration -- issue list

Robin Holt
2005-02-16T02:01:41Z

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