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On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > Address space migration? That is something new in this discussion. So 
> > could you explain what you mean by that? I have looked at page migration 
> > in a variety of contexts and could not see much difference.
> 
> MCE page migration just puts a physical page to somewhere else.
> memory hotplug migration does the same for multiple pages from
> different processes.
> 
> Page migration like you're asking for migrates whole processes.

No I am asking for the migration of parts of a process. Hotplug migration 
and MCE page migration do the same.