From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
Cc: Dmitry Krivoschekov <dmitry.krivoschekov@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Execute in place
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 04:37:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <464060EF.8090501@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705081436.11928.a1426z@gawab.com>
Al Boldi wrote:
>
> You don't really think that anybody is suggesting to store the tmpfs data
> without any coherency, do you?
>
> I am suggesting that you can easily isolate tmpfs coherency from the rest of
> the page-cache, by simply streaming tmpfs data out to an mmap and plugging
> it with the tmpfs fat on umount. And streaming things back in on mount.
>
You still don't get it, do you?
tmpfs metadata doesn't live in the pagecache.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-08 11:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-02 23:11 Execute in place Al Boldi
2007-05-03 7:31 ` Dmitry Krivoschekov
2007-05-03 11:33 ` Al Boldi
2007-05-03 17:38 ` Dmitry Krivoschekov
2007-05-07 16:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-07 19:37 ` Al Boldi
2007-05-07 19:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-07 20:56 ` Al Boldi
2007-05-08 6:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-08 11:36 ` Al Boldi
2007-05-08 11:37 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-05-08 12:02 ` Al Boldi
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-01 21:55 Phillip Susi
2007-05-02 14:04 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-05-02 14:38 ` Björn Steinbrink
2007-05-02 15:22 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-05-02 19:30 ` Phillip Susi
2007-05-02 20:34 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-05-03 11:38 ` Erik Mouw
2007-05-03 15:37 ` Jörn Engel
2007-05-03 12:12 ` Robin Getz
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