From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
npiggin@suse.de, chris.mason@oracle.com, kurt.hackel@oracle.com,
dave.mccracken@oracle.com, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
jeremy@goop.org, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
akpm@osdl.org, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
tmem-devel@oss.oracle.com, sunil.mushran@oracle.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Himanshu Raj <rhim@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] transcendent memory for Linux
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:36:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090629203619.GA6611@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0dbec206-c157-4482-8fd7-4ccf9c2bdc5a@default>
> It is documented currently at:
>
> http://oss.oracle.com/projects/tmem/documentation/api/
>
> (just noticed I still haven't posted version 0.0.2 which
> has a few minor changes).
>
> I will add a briefer description of this API in Documentation/
Please do.
At least TMEM_NEW_POOL() looks quite ugly. Why uuid? Mixing flags into
size argument is strange.
> It is in-kernel only because some of the operations have
> a parameter that is a physical page frame number.
In-kernel API is probably better described as function prototypes.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-29 20:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-19 23:53 [RFC] transcendent memory for Linux Dan Magenheimer
2009-06-20 1:35 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] transcendent memory ("tmem") " Dan Magenheimer
2009-06-20 1:35 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] tmem: infrastructure for tmem layer Dan Magenheimer
2009-06-20 1:50 ` Rik van Riel
2009-06-20 1:35 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] tmem: precache implementation (layered on tmem) Dan Magenheimer
2009-06-20 2:28 ` Rik van Riel
2009-06-20 1:36 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] tmem: preswap " Dan Magenheimer
2009-06-20 1:36 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] tmem: interface code for tmem on top of xen Dan Magenheimer
2009-06-22 11:27 ` [RFC] transcendent memory for Linux Martin Schwidefsky
2009-06-22 20:41 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-06-22 14:31 ` Chris Friesen
2009-06-22 20:50 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-06-24 15:04 ` Pavel Machek
2009-06-29 14:34 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-06-29 20:36 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2009-06-29 21:13 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-06-29 21:23 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-06-29 21:57 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-06-29 22:15 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-06-30 21:21 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-06-30 22:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-07-01 23:02 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-01 23:31 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-07-02 6:38 ` Pavel Machek
2009-07-02 14:03 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-06-27 13:18 ` Linus Walleij
2009-06-28 7:42 ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-29 14:44 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-01 3:41 ` Roland Dreier
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