Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:33:50 +0900 (JST) | Subject | Re: [Lhms-devel] Re: new memory hotremoval patch | From | Hirokazu Takahashi <> |
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Hello,
> > Page "remapping" is a mechanism to free a specified page by copying the > > page content to a newly allocated replacement page and redirecting > > references to the original page to the new page. > > This was designed to reliably free specified pages, unlike the swapout > > code. > > are you 100% sure the locking is correct wrt O_DIRECT, AIO or futexes ??
Sure, it can handle that! And it can handle pages on RAMDISK and sysfs and so on.
Thank you, Hirokazu Takahashi.
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