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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	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>,
	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: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:41:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110719154130.GA26245@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1311089863.29817.172.camel@nimitz>

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 08:37:43AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> This implementation has some real show-stopper things in it, like its
> own LRU.  But, the concept seems interesting at least.

So if you care about it implement it sanely and not like a monkey on
crack would do it.  Having a madvice flag to allow reclaiming tmpfs
pages, and using the normal VM infrastructure sounds like a perfectly
fine feature.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-19 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-18 18:54 John Stultz
2011-07-19  2:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
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 [this message]
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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