Re: [PATCH 0/5] Direct Migration V9: Overview

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Wed Jan 11 2006 - 01:09:53 EST


On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:

> By the way, what is the limitation of migratable pages ?
> I think current limitation is just Hugetlb pages and mlocked pages. right ?

Hugetlb is the only limitation. I have a patch here to allow the moving of
mlocked pages. Basically one only needs to guarantee that those are not
swapped out. But I'd like to wait with that for awhile.

> Could you make it clear and add comment or doc before going to -mm ?

Will add a patch to that effect.

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