From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, izike@qumranet.com, steiner@sgi.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, avi@qumranet.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com,
Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
general@lists.openfabrics.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [patch 0/6] MMU Notifiers V6
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 02:24:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080209012446.GB7051@v2.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802081634070.5298@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 04:36:16PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Roland Dreier wrote:
>
> > That would of course work -- dumb adapters would just always fail,
> > which might be inefficient.
>
> Hmmmm.. that means we need something that actually pins pages for good so
> that the VM can avoid reclaiming it and so that page migration can avoid
> trying to migrate them. Something like yet another page flag.
What's wrong with pinning with the page count like now? Dumb adapters
would simply not register themself in the mmu notifier list no?
>
> Ccing Rik.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-09 1:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-08 22:06 [patch 0/6] MMU Notifiers V6 Christoph Lameter
2008-02-08 22:06 ` [patch 1/6] mmu_notifier: Core code Christoph Lameter
2008-02-08 22:06 ` [patch 2/6] mmu_notifier: Callbacks to invalidate address ranges Christoph Lameter
2008-02-08 22:06 ` [patch 3/6] mmu_notifier: invalidate_page callbacks Christoph Lameter
2008-02-08 22:06 ` [patch 4/6] mmu_notifier: Skeleton driver for a simple mmu_notifier Christoph Lameter
2008-02-08 22:06 ` [patch 5/6] mmu_notifier: Support for drivers with revers maps (f.e. for XPmem) Christoph Lameter
2008-02-08 22:06 ` [patch 6/6] mmu_rmap_notifier: Skeleton for complex driver that uses its own rmaps Christoph Lameter
2008-02-08 22:23 ` [patch 0/6] MMU Notifiers V6 Andrew Morton
2008-02-08 23:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-08 23:36 ` Robin Holt
2008-02-08 23:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-08 23:43 ` Robin Holt
2008-02-08 23:56 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-09 0:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-09 0:12 ` [ofa-general] " Roland Dreier
2008-02-09 0:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-09 0:22 ` Roland Dreier
2008-02-09 0:36 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-09 1:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2008-02-09 1:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-09 1:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-09 2:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-09 12:55 ` Rik van Riel
2008-02-09 21:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-11 22:40 ` Demand paging for memory regions (was Re: MMU Notifiers V6) Roland Dreier
2008-02-12 22:01 ` Steve Wise
2008-02-12 22:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-12 22:41 ` [ofa-general] Re: Demand paging for memory regions Roland Dreier
2008-02-12 23:14 ` Felix Marti
2008-02-13 0:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-14 15:09 ` Steve Wise
2008-02-14 15:53 ` Robin Holt
2008-02-14 16:23 ` Steve Wise
2008-02-14 17:48 ` Caitlin Bestler
2008-02-14 19:39 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-14 20:17 ` Caitlin Bestler
2008-02-14 20:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-14 22:43 ` Caitlin Bestler
2008-02-14 22:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-15 1:26 ` Caitlin Bestler
2008-02-15 2:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-15 18:09 ` Caitlin Bestler
2008-02-15 18:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-15 18:53 ` Caitlin Bestler
2008-02-15 20:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-15 20:14 ` Caitlin Bestler
2008-02-15 22:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-15 23:50 ` Caitlin Bestler
2008-02-12 23:23 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2008-02-13 1:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-13 1:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2008-02-13 1:45 ` Steve Wise
2008-02-13 2:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-13 3:25 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2008-02-13 3:56 ` Patrick Geoffray
2008-02-13 4:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2008-02-13 4:47 ` Patrick Geoffray
2008-02-13 18:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-13 19:51 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2008-02-13 20:36 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-13 4:09 ` Christian Bell
2008-02-13 19:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-13 19:46 ` Christian Bell
2008-02-13 20:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-13 22:44 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2008-02-13 23:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-13 23:43 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2008-02-13 23:48 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-02-14 0:56 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-14 19:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-13 23:23 ` Pete Wyckoff
2008-02-14 0:01 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2008-02-27 22:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-13 1:55 ` Christian Bell
2008-02-13 2:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-13 0:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-13 12:11 ` Christoph Raisch
2008-02-13 19:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-09 0:12 ` [patch 0/6] MMU Notifiers V6 Andrew Morton
2008-02-09 0:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-13 14:31 ` Jack Steiner
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