Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] beat kswapd with the proverbial clue-bat

[Jörn Engel]

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. ;)

Jörn

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