Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Nov 2005 19:58:18 -0600 | From | Joel Schopp <> | Subject | Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19 |
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> Actually, what I was thinking is that if you use the swsusp infrastructure to > suspend all processes, all dma, quiesce the heck out of the devices, and > _then_ try to move the kernel... Well, you at least have a much more > controlled problem. Yeah, it's pretty darn intrusive, but if you're doing > "suspend to ram" perhaps the downtime could be only 5 or 10 seconds...
I don't think suspend to ram for a memory hotplug remove would be acceptable to users. The other methods add some complexity to the kernel, but are transparent to userspace. Downtime of 5 to 10 seconds is really quite a bit of downtime.
> I don't know how much of the problem that leaves unsolved, though.
It would still require a remappable kernel. And seems intuitively to be wrong to me. But if you want to try it out I won't stop you. It might even work.
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