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From: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Robert Love <rlove@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Anonymous shared memory (ashmem) subsystem
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:58:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1311112736.2945.106.camel@work-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110719154130.GA26245@infradead.org>

On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 11:41 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 08:37:43AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > This implementation has some real show-stopper things in it, like its
> > own LRU.  But, the concept seems interesting at least.
[snip]
> Having a madvice flag to allow reclaiming tmpfs
> pages, and using the normal VM infrastructure sounds like a perfectly
> fine feature.

Ok. Thanks all for the review and comments. I'll see if something like
what was suggested can be worked out.

thanks again,
-john




  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-19 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-18 18:54 [RFC][PATCH] Anonymous shared memory (ashmem) subsystem John Stultz
2011-07-19  2:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-19  3:32   ` Bryan Donlan
2011-07-19  3:36     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-19 15:37       ` Dave Hansen
2011-07-19 15:41         ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-19 21:58           ` John Stultz [this message]
2011-07-19 14:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-07-19 15:55 ` Arnd Bergmann

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