On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:33:24 -0700 "Ray Lee" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > So. We can
> >
> > a) provide a way for userspace to reload pagecache and
> >
> > b) merge maps2 (once it's finished) (pokes mpm)
> >
> > and we're done?
>
> Eh, dunno. Maybe?
>
> We're assuming we come up with an API for userspace to get
> notifications of evictions (without polling, though poll() would be
> fine -- you know what I mean), and an API for re-victing those things
> on demand.
I was assuming that polling would work OK. I expect it would.
> If you think that adding that API and maintaining it is
> simpler/better than including a variation on the above hueristic I
> offered, then yeah, I guess we are. It'll all have that vague
> userspace s2ram odor about it, but I'm sure it could be made to work.
Actually, I overdesigned the API, I suspect. What we _could_ do is to
provide a way of allowing userspace to say "pretend process A touched page
B": adopt its mm and go touch the page. We in fact already have that:
PTRACE_PEEKTEXT.
So I suspect this could all be done by polling maps2 and using PEEKTEXT.
The tricky part would be working out when to poll, and when to reestablish.
A neater implementation than PEEKTEXT would be to make the maps2 files
writeable(!) so as a party trick you could tar 'em up and then, when you
want to reestablish firefox's previous working set, do a untar in
/proc/$(pidof firefox)/
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