Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:40:56 -0800
From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: holt@sgi.com, raybry@sgi.com, taka@valinux.co.jp, hugh@veritas.com,
       akpm@osdl.org, marcello@cyclades.com, raybry@austin.rr.com,
       linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 7/7] mm: manual page migration --
 sys_page_migrate
Message-Id: <20050215074056.79781687.pj@sgi.com>
In-Reply-To: <1108407043.6154.49.camel@localhost>
References: <20050212032535.18524.12046.26397@tomahawk.engr.sgi.com>
	<20050212032620.18524.15178.29731@tomahawk.engr.sgi.com>
	<1108242262.6154.39.camel@localhost>
	<20050214135221.GA20511@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com>
	<1108407043.6154.49.camel@localhost>
Organization: SGI
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 788
Lines: 18

Robin wrote:
> Requiring that the process is stopped will somewhat limit the use of
> this API outside of the HPC space where so much control can be had over
> the processes. 

Good point.  Hopefully we can find a way to design this system
call so that it does not require suspension.  Some uses of it
may well choose to suspend, but that's a user space choice.

-- 
                  I won't rest till it's the best ...
                  Programmer, Linux Scalability
                  Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401
-
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/