From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail203.messagelabs.com (mail203.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F1CC6B003D for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 20:31:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 6so215255yxn.26 for ; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:31:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49D4076D.4010500@codemonkey.ws> Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:31:41 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori 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> <49D3F088.50600@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <49D3F088.50600@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Izik Eidus 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: Izik Eidus wrote: > 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? You can't change ABIs after something is merged or you break userspace. So you need to figure out the right ABI first. Regards, Anthony Liguori -- 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