Hi... On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am interested in this: > > why do u do page migration? AFAIK, (i also study about it briefly during reading about ZONE_MOVEABLE), it happens mostly in NUMA with hot pluggable memory capability. Think when you want to unplug certain memory chip...you have to "migrate" the page, right? Migrate here, IMHO means: a. copying the page's content somewhere b. fixing the PTE so that it points to the new page that hold the copied data while maintaining consistent virtual address regards, Mulyadi. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
