-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 4/19/2013 3:12 AM, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote: > But going further, as I had mentioned in my TODO list, we can be > smarter than this while doing compaction to evacuate memory regions > - we can choose to migrate only the active pages, and leave the > inactive pages alone. Because, the goal is to actually consolidate > the *references* and not necessarily the *allocations* themselves.
That would help with keeping references compact to allow use of the low power states, but it would also be nice to keep allocations compact, and completely power off a bank of ram with no allocations. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRpQ7EAAoJEJrBOlT6nu75wqYH/Aq18xGwk3QCJPEBb3BQX4be NY0JfHH9sHE7CFH4t13qpwNj/+N73xBg+TumY2qekUxqfwYSRo3hDhPRonlW/eDI X2AaEGDs8+aQT+QY8bAZnZFHFX8ZayNYOsNCewEV8djZDll2l+fOaFjVfZAwuQLK KtsMxjhlTzqMleRxVpZFLtVPG4GzLRITifKlBRQ+ffrO1zTTMI7glvM+IygIa5vS ajOCI0Nis1Rst2cOsrxfWc+DKN+gnI6c/qTsHarPD5zda1AFwe9DzWQ7EGiqnbJq 39vJmGIsspwrEPbaK0VX5dVYp85Bvd03EudeEish4EHVmH+hphpFokxoypRJePg= =Flf3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
