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From: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] mem: add API to obstain memory-backed
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 11:07:40 +0000
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Hi Pavel,

On 12/01/2016 11:00, Pavel Fedin wrote:
>   Hello!
>
>>>    BTW, i'm still unhappy about ABI breakage here. I think we could easily add --shared-mem
>> option, which would simply change mapping mode to SHARED. So, we could use it with both
>> hugepages (default) and plain mmap (with --no-hugepages).
>>
>> You mean, use "--no-hugepages --shared-mem" together, right?
>   Yes. This would be perfectly backwards-compatible because.

So are you suggesting to not introduce --single-file option but instead 
--shared-mem?
AFAIK --single-file was trying to workaround the limitation of just 
being able to map 8 fds.

Sergio
> Kind regards,
> Pavel Fedin
> Senior Engineer
> Samsung Electronics Research center Russia
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