Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266143AbUIONg4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:36:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266149AbUIONgo (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:36:44 -0400 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.194]:54252 "EHLO mail.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266143AbUION2U (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:28:20 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:27:12 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Arjan van de Ven , 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: <20040915132712.GA6158@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 793 Lines: 23 On Sun, 5 September 2004 10:58:07 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > well... we have a reverse mapping now. What is stopping us from doing > > physical defragmentation ? > > Nothing but replacement policy, really, and the fact that not everything > is rmappable. 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. ;) J?rn -- It's just what we asked for, but not what we want! -- anonymous - 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/