From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754738AbYJGLVI (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 07:21:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752832AbYJGLUz (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 07:20:55 -0400 Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.27]:55806 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752992AbYJGLUy (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 07:20:54 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:21:58 +0300 From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" To: Andi Kleen Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Ingo Molnar , Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] shmat: introduce flag SHM_MAP_HINT Message-ID: <20081007112157.GA5126@localhost.localdomain> References: <20081006132651.GG3180@one.firstfloor.org> <1223303879-5555-1-git-send-email-kirill@shutemov.name> <20081007195837.5A6B.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> <20081007112119.GG20740@one.firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081007112119.GG20740@one.firstfloor.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-29) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 01:21:19PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Honestly, I don't like that qemu specific feature insert into shmem cor= e. >=20 > I wouldn't say it's a qemu specific interface. While qemu would=20 > be the first user I would expect more in the future. It's a pretty > obvious extension. In fact it nearly should be default, if the > risk of breaking old applications wasn't too high. It's bad idea. It will break POSIX compatible. --=20 Regards, Kirill A. Shutemov + Belarus, Minsk + ALT Linux Team, http://www.altlinux.com/ --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjrRlUACgkQbWYnhzC5v6o9ZQCfdXw0/6+rOfTVNOdznzH0YGg6 2j0An1LTSY9Db6LJchJe2avOxbzuFcSH =BigC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx--