From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: colpatch@us.ibm.com
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
Michael Hohnbaum <hohnbaum@us.ibm.com>,
lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] [rfc][api] Shared Memory Binding
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:48:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ovk7g4ecko.fsf@sap.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E4978B6.9030201@us.ibm.com> (Matthew Dobson's message of "Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:27:02 -0800")
Hi Matt,
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Matthew Dobson wrote:
> I'd hoped to see how this proposal and pending patch went over with
> everyone, before attempting anything more broad. My last attempt at
> something similar to this failed due to being too invasive and
> complicated. My thoughts were to try something fairly
> straightforward and simple this time.
But SYSV shm is a thin layer on top of tmpfs, which again is a thin
layer on top of the page cache.
So if you want to have something simple, you should work on the
generic layer. For me a general mmbind() makes much more sense.
Greetings
Christoph
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-11 21:42 [Lse-tech] [rfc][api] Shared Memory Binding Luck, Tony
2003-02-11 21:51 ` Paul Jackson
2003-02-16 9:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-11 22:27 ` Matthew Dobson
2003-02-13 9:48 ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
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