From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753710AbYIYCnw (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:43:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752268AbYIYCnn (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:43:43 -0400 Received: from home.keithp.com ([63.227.221.253]:3836 "EHLO keithp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752082AbYIYCnn (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:43:43 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch] mm: pageable memory allocator (for DRM-GEM?) From: Keith Packard To: Nick Piggin Cc: keithp@keithp.com, eric@anholt.net, hugh@veritas.com, hch@infradead.org, airlied@linux.ie, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, thomas@tungstengraphics.com, dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux Memory Management List , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20080925023014.GB4401@wotan.suse.de> References: <20080923091017.GB29718@wotan.suse.de> <1222185029.4873.157.camel@koto.keithp.com> <20080925003021.GC23494@wotan.suse.de> <1222305622.4343.166.camel@koto.keithp.com> <20080925023014.GB4401@wotan.suse.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-GYCG0ZiNG1vhycsunoPk" Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:43:26 -0700 Message-Id: <1222310606.4343.174.camel@koto.keithp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-GYCG0ZiNG1vhycsunoPk Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 04:30 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > OK. I will have to add some facilities to allow mmaps that go back throug= h > to tmpfs and be swappable... Thanks for the data point. It seems like once you've done that you might consider extracting the page allocator from shmem so that drm, tmpfs and sysv IPC would share the same underlying memory manager API. --=20 keith.packard@intel.com --=-GYCG0ZiNG1vhycsunoPk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBI2vrOQp8BWwlsTdMRAta3AKDdMsaDuVC5iYl8//VG8pMtj2/tDQCgjUyP KL15keWQnOdRYe9HEyzzSCE= =hxHd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-GYCG0ZiNG1vhycsunoPk--