From: "Ross Biro" <rossb@google.com>
To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Mel Gorman <MELGOR@ie.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: RFC/POC Make Page Tables Relocatable
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:58:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d43160c70710251258m745c70a7t462cad964ffb2f9f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d43160c70710251253j2f4e640uc0ccc0432738f55c@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/25/07, Ross Biro <rossb@google.com> wrote:
> On 10/25/07, Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > With the pagetable page you can go examine ptes. From the ptes, you can
> > get the 'struct page' for the mapped page. From there, you can get the
>
> Definitely worth considering.
Now I remember. At least in the slab allocator, the relocation code
must hold an important spinlock while the relocation occurs. Maybe I
can get around that, but maybe not. If not, that could be a
fundamental problem, but at least it prevents doing long searches.
Ross
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-25 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-25 15:16 RFC/POC Make Page Tables Relocatable Ross Biro
2007-10-25 16:46 ` Dave Hansen
2007-10-25 17:40 ` Ross Biro
2007-10-25 18:08 ` Dave Hansen
2007-10-25 18:44 ` Ross Biro
2007-10-25 18:47 ` Dave Hansen
2007-10-25 19:23 ` Dave Hansen
2007-10-25 19:53 ` Ross Biro
2007-10-25 19:56 ` Dave Hansen
2007-10-25 19:58 ` Ross Biro [this message]
2007-10-25 20:15 ` Dave Hansen
2007-10-25 20:00 ` Dave Hansen
2007-10-25 20:10 ` Ross Biro
2007-10-25 20:20 ` Dave Hansen
2007-10-26 16:10 ` Mel Gorman
2007-10-26 16:51 ` Ross Biro
2007-10-26 17:11 ` Mel Gorman
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