From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 12:30:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020307123058.B27659@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <505.1015411792@redhat.com> <E16iecJ-0007Nn-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20020306222149.GC370@elf.ucw.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20020306222149.GC370@elf.ucw.cz>; from pavel@ucw.cz on Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:21:50PM +0100
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:21:50PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> I just imagined hardware which supports freeing memory -- just do not
> refresh it any more to conserve power ;-))).
> Granted, it would probably only make sense in big chunks, like 2MB or
> so... It might make sense for a PDA...
ISTR reading about one handheld that did something like this (possibly psion)
The hardware has the ability to migrate data from one memory bank to
another and power down the least used one.
--
| Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-07 11:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-03 21:12 [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages Jeff Dike
2002-03-03 22:01 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-03 23:27 ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-03 23:48 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-04 3:16 ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-04 3:35 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-04 5:04 ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-04 15:09 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-04 17:42 ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-04 18:29 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-04 18:36 ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-04 18:49 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-04 20:46 ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-04 22:49 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-04 17:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-04 18:34 ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-04 18:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-04 20:36 ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-04 22:51 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-05 4:15 ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-05 4:28 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-05 4:40 ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-05 5:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-05 14:43 ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-05 16:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-05 16:56 ` Wayne Whitney
2002-03-05 18:12 ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-05 18:30 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-06 14:59 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-06 15:24 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-06 15:24 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-06 16:36 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-06 23:14 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-06 23:20 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-06 23:26 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-06 23:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-07 0:08 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-07 1:27 ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-07 1:52 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-08 19:17 ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-08 21:22 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-07 13:49 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-07 13:36 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-07 14:04 ` yodaiken
2002-03-07 14:21 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-07 14:38 ` yodaiken
2002-03-07 15:31 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-07 16:50 ` yodaiken
2002-03-07 18:07 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-07 18:15 ` yodaiken
2002-03-07 19:22 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-07 22:43 ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-07 23:09 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-07 22:57 ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-07 14:43 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-07 15:32 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-07 16:19 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-07 17:54 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-07 15:34 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-03-07 19:18 ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-07 20:10 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-07 20:56 ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-07 21:23 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-07 22:02 ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-07 22:10 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-07 22:23 ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-07 22:27 ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-07 22:41 ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-07 22:42 ` David Lang
2002-03-06 16:03 ` Jesse Pollard
2002-03-06 17:08 ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-06 17:33 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-07 0:28 ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-07 0:44 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-05 18:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-06 1:30 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-06 10:49 ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-06 14:26 ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-06 16:50 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-06 20:25 ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-06 20:54 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-06 21:27 ` Malcolm Beattie
2002-03-06 23:26 ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-06 21:27 ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-06 22:25 ` Joseph Malicki
2002-03-07 0:04 ` Richard Gooch
2002-03-07 0:28 ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-07 0:44 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-06 22:21 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-07 11:30 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-03-07 18:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-05 14:43 ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-05 16:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-05 18:14 ` Jeff Dike
2002-03-05 18:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-05 17:30 ` Jan Harkes
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