From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 13:30:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 13:30:22 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:4823 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 13:30:21 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 10:28:20 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Dave Engebretsen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bug: Discontigmem virt_to_page() [Alpha,ARM,Mips64?] Message-ID: <20020502172820.GK32767@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Dave Engebretsen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020429153500.B28887@dualathlon.random> <20020501042341.G11414@dualathlon.random> <20020501180547.GA1212440@sgi.com> <20020502011750.M11414@dualathlon.random> <20020502002010.GA14243@krispykreme> <20020502030113.Q11414@dualathlon.random> <20020502152825.GE10495@krispykreme> <20020502163135.GI32767@holomorphy.com> <3CD167A7.3EFEC1B5@vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: brief message Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Would the flip side of that coin perhaps be implementing a way to be a >> good logically partitioned citizen and cooperatively offline memory? >> Cheers, >> Bill On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:21:59AM -0500, Dave Engebretsen wrote: > Yes, both add and remove are needed to be a good citizen. One could > spend all kinds of time coming up with good huristicts to do that > automatically :) > At a mimimum, manual off line of memory would be nice. > Dave. I have a particular interest in the implementation of at least one mechanism in the kernel (rmap) which could be exploited to assist in this. If there are other efforts in progress toward this end I'd be happy to investigate methods of using the additional machinery provided by rmap to assist in this. Cheers, Bill