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From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com>,
	Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"open list:MEMORY MANAGEMENT" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>,
	Nicolas Geoffray <ngeoffray@google.com>,
	Jared Duke <jdduke@google.com>,
	android-mm <android-mm@google.com>,
	Blake Caldwell <blake.caldwell@colorado.edu>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC for new feature to move pages from one vma to another without split
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 11:36:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZDghhTH2KtCeAwcZ@x1n> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3059388f-1604-c326-c66f-c2e0f9bb6cbf@redhat.com>

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 10:10:44AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> So instead, we consider the whole address space as a virtual, anon file,
> starting at offset 0. The pgoff of a VMA is then simply the offset in that
> virtual file (easily computed from the start of the VMA), and VMA merging is
> just the same as for an ordinary file.

Interesting point, thanks!

-- 
Peter Xu


  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-13 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-16 22:27 RFC for new feature to move pages from one vma to another without split Lokesh Gidra
2023-04-06 17:29 ` Peter Xu
2023-04-10  7:41   ` Lokesh Gidra
2023-04-11 15:14     ` Peter Xu
2023-05-08 22:56       ` Lokesh Gidra
2023-05-16 16:43         ` Peter Xu
2023-04-12  8:47   ` David Hildenbrand
2023-04-12 15:58     ` Peter Xu
2023-04-13  8:10       ` David Hildenbrand
2023-04-13 15:36         ` Peter Xu [this message]
2023-06-06 20:15           ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-06-06 23:18             ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-06-08 10:05               ` Lokesh Gidra
2023-09-14 15:30                 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-06-07 20:17         ` Lorenzo Stoakes

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