Re: [PATCH 0/5] Swap Migration V5: Overview

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Hirokazu Takahashi wrote:

> > > > Do you think the features which these patches add should be Kconfigurable?
> 
> This code looks no help for hot-remove. It seems able to handle only
> pages easily to migrate, while hot-remove has to guarantee all pages
> can be migrated.

Right.

> Hi Christoph, sorry I've been off from lhms for long time.
> 
> Shall I port the generic memory migration code for hot-remove to -mm tree
> directly, and add some new interface like migrate_page_to(struct page *from,
> struct page *to) so this may probably fit for your purpose.
> 
> The code is still in Dave's mhp1 tree waiting for being merged to -mm tree.
> The port will be easy because the migration code is independent to the
> memory hotplug code. The core code isn't so big.

Please follow the discussion on lhms-devel. I am trying to bring these two 
things together.

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