Re: [ofa-general] Re: [patch 0/6] MMU Notifiers V6

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Feb 08 2008 - 19:36:31 EST


On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Roland Dreier wrote:

> That would of course work -- dumb adapters would just always fail,
> which might be inefficient.

Hmmmm.. that means we need something that actually pins pages for good so
that the VM can avoid reclaiming it and so that page migration can avoid
trying to migrate them. Something like yet another page flag.

Ccing Rik.

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