Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266250AbUIONbs (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:31:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266243AbUIONap (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:30:45 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:39333 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265489AbUION3T (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:29:19 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:29:04 +0200 From: Arjan van de Ven To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel Cc: Linus Torvalds , Nick Piggin , "David S. Miller" , akpm@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] beat kswapd with the proverbial clue-bat Message-ID: <20040915132904.GA30530@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <413AA7B2.4000907@yahoo.com.au> <20040904230210.03fe3c11.davem@davemloft.net> <413AAF49.5070600@yahoo.com.au> <413AE6E7.5070103@yahoo.com.au> <1094405830.2809.8.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <20040915132712.GA6158@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FCuugMFkClbJLl1L" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040915132712.GA6158@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1311 Lines: 40 --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 03:27:12PM +0200, J=F6rn Engel wrote: > On Sun, 5 September 2004 10:58:07 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > >=20 > > > well... we have a reverse mapping now. What is stopping us from doing > > > physical defragmentation ? > >=20 > > Nothing but replacement policy, really, and the fact that not everything > > is rmappable. >=20 > What about pointers? I have an ethernet driver that hands pointers to > physical memory pages to hardware. Would be fun if someone > defragmented those pages. ;) if you haven't pinned those pages then you have lost already. --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBSEOgxULwo51rQBIRAmsAAJ0RClG9gZA53bBEKcicH9iJPgC20gCff2tE J31kS7uh6UKGQs3DKgnUiLA= =sCyb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/