From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: 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>,
Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
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: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:19:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110719021947.GA16986@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1311015274-28650-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org>
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:54:34AM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> From: Robert Love <rlove@google.com>
>
> Recently, Robert Love updated his ashmem patch and posted it here:
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/ashmem/
>
> This reminded me that in all the conversations around the Android patches,
> I've not seen any discussion on lkml about the ashmem functionality.
> Coming from Robert, its very clean and self-contained and seems pretty
> interesting. So I wanted to send it out for review and comments.
And utterly stupid, just use tmpfs and /dev/zero for the base functionality.
And the pinning crap really needs a much better rationale.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-19 2:19 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 [this message]
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
2011-07-19 14:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-07-19 15:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
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