From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 327146B003D for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:57:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <49D3F088.50600@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:54:00 +0300 From: Izik Eidus MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] add ksm kernel shared memory driver. References: <1238457560-7613-5-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <49D17C04.9070307@codemonkey.ws> <49D20B63.8020709@redhat.com> <49D21B33.4070406@codemonkey.ws> <20090331142533.GR9137@random.random> <49D22A9D.4050403@codemonkey.ws> <20090331150218.GS9137@random.random> <49D23224.9000903@codemonkey.ws> <20090331151845.GT9137@random.random> <49D23CD1.9090208@codemonkey.ws> <20090331162525.GU9137@random.random> <49D24A02.6070000@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <49D24A02.6070000@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, avi@redhat.com, chrisw@redhat.com, riel@redhat.com, jeremy@goop.org, mtosatti@redhat.com, hugh@veritas.com, corbet@lwn.net, yaniv@redhat.com, dmonakhov@openvz.org List-ID: Anthony Liguori wrote: > Andrea Arcangeli wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:54:57AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> >>> You can still disable ksm and simply return ENOSYS for the MADV_ >>> flag. You >> >> Anthony, the biggest problem about madvice() is that it is a real system call api, i wouldnt want in that stage of ksm commit into api changes of linux... The ioctl itself is restricting, madvice is much more..., Can we draft this issue to after ksm is merged, and after all the big new fetures that we want to add to ksm will be merge.... (then the api would be much more stable, and we will be able to ask ppl in the list about changing of api, but for new driver that it yet to be merged, it is kind of overkill to add api to linux) What do you think? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org