From: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [QUESTION] Filesystem like structure in RAM w/o using filesystem (not ramdisk)
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:57:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Eho01-0007dN-00@calista.inka.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <438EE256.6040403@tuleriit.ee>
In article <438EE256.6040403@tuleriit.ee> you wrote:
> As I have understood the accessing ramdisk goes through the same kernel
> path which is meant for accessing slow block device (i_nodes caching etc.).
> Is there any other common way (some API above shared memory?) to
> create/open/read/write globally accessible hierarchical datablocks in RAM?
SYSV IPC Shared Memory?
> Could it be possibly faster than ramdisk?
I think if you mmap tmpfs files it is pretty good, which is what libc is
doing for shm emulation.
Gruss
Bernd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-01 12:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-01 11:45 Indrek Kruusa
2005-12-01 12:20 ` Hesse, Christian
2005-12-01 12:57 ` Bernd Eckenfels [this message]
2005-12-05 0:39 ` Rob Landley
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