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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
To: Kenny Simpson <theonetruekenny@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Armin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org>
Subject: Re: remap_file_pages() use
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 17:35:40 +0300 (EEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140519143540.BE9F6E009B@blue.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140519130114.GA3140@dhcp22.suse.cz>

Michal Hocko wrote:
> [CCing Kirill and other people involved]
> 
> On Sun 18-05-14 00:03:28, Kenny Simpson wrote:
> > I saw that remap_file_pages() was possibly going away to be replaced
> > by some emulation. I've used this call in several projects over the
> > years mostly as a way of mapping multiple virtual memory pages to
> > alias the same private or shared memory region (to do things like
> > circular buffers). mmap()
> > in the case of anonymous memory doesn't work as well since there is
> > not a file descriptor to reference.
> > 
> > Would this sort of thing be supported in the emulation, or should I be
> > planning on reimplementing/rewriting some things?

>From functional POV, emulation *should* be identical to original
remap_file_pages(), but slower. It would be nice, if you test it early.

It's not clear yet how long emulation will be there.
Is there a reason why you can't use fd from shared memory (shm_open() or
direct open() on /dev/shm/xxx)?

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-19 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-18  4:03 Kenny Simpson
2014-05-19 13:01 ` Michal Hocko
2014-05-19 14:35   ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2014-05-19 14:38     ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-19 15:02       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-05-19 15:11         ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-19 15:17           ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-05-19 15:42             ` Armin Rigo
2014-05-19 15:53               ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-05-19 16:42                 ` Armin Rigo
2014-05-19 17:50                   ` Dave Hansen
2014-05-19 22:05                     ` Armin Rigo
2014-05-19 16:56             ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-19 19:14             ` Richard Weinberger
2014-05-26  0:19       ` Jeff Smith
2014-05-26  9:42         ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-05-26 13:24           ` Jeff Smith
2014-05-26 13:35             ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-05-26 13:38               ` Jeff Smith
2014-05-26 13:47                 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-05-26 13:52                   ` Jeff Smith
2014-05-26 14:16                     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-05-26 13:37             ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-05-19 17:34     ` Kenny Simpson
2014-05-19 21:24       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-05-21  1:53         ` Kenny Simpson
2014-05-21  3:56           ` Kenny Simpson
2014-05-21  4:32             ` Hugh Dickins

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