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From: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>
To: cotte@freenet.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/5] add execute in place support
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 18:12:55 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2cd57c9005060103122b2bae36@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <428216DF.8070205@de.ibm.com>

On 5/11/05, Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> this is the intro to a small series of patches that introduce execute
> in place into the I/O stack. File I/O to memory-backed block
> devices is performed directly, bypassing the page cache and io
> schedulers. On s390, we use this for block devices based on shared
> memory between multiple virtual machines. This is also useful on
> embedded systems where the block device is located on a flash chip.
> This work is a result of a prior discussion with Andrew Morton
> about my first implementation which basically was a filesystem
> derived from ext2.
> 
> As I'd like to aim for integration into -mm and vanilla later on,
> I'd like to encourage everyone to give it a read and provide
> feedback. All patches apply against git-head as of today.

I feel the name "execute in place" misleading. This is not the real
XIP, IMHO. Invent another term or be tolerant?
-- 
Coywolf Qi Hunt
http://ahbl.org/~coywolf/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-06-01 10:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-11 14:29 [RFC/PATCH 0/5] add execute in place support Carsten Otte
2005-05-11 16:19 ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-11 16:35   ` Carsten Otte
2005-05-12  8:57     ` Jörn Engel
2005-05-12  9:10       ` Carsten Otte
2005-05-12  9:43       ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-01  9:33         ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-06-01 11:31           ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-01 10:12 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt [this message]
2005-06-01 12:06   ` Arnd Bergmann
2005-06-01 13:39     ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-01 14:03       ` Carsten Otte
2005-06-01 14:10         ` Jörn Engel

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