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Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:28:03 -0400 From: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@...il.com> To: Siddhartha Chhabra <siddhartha.chhabra@...il.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Controlling memory allocation On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Siddhartha Chhabra <siddhartha.chhabra@...il.com> wrote: > I hope I am making some sense, so in essence my question can be re-framed > as, can the kernel "virtualize" memory for a particular process so only a > particular region of the memory is available for that particular process and > all other activities like page allocation and replacement take place for > this process only within this region and rest of the system functions > normally with the entire memory available for use > > Thanks once again for your reply and I really appreciate all the help I'm not an expert on the Linux memory manager, but I don't think what you're asking has been implemented in the kernel - although it might be useful for your particular research, it's not really useful in the real world, so nobody's had a need to implement it. Of course, feel free to do so yourself :) PS - I received two copies of the message with different message IDs. When replying to this message, just use reply to all from gmail, don't copy and paste it into nabble as well. The CC will make sure it gets to lkml. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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