Hi...

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Peter Teoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.

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