From: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
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-mm@kvack.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] mm: pageable memory allocator (for DRM-GEM?)
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:43:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1222310606.4343.174.camel@koto.keithp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080925023014.GB4401@wotan.suse.de>
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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 through
> 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.
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keith.packard@intel.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-25 2:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-23 9:10 Nick Piggin
2008-09-23 10:21 ` Thomas Hellström
2008-09-23 11:31 ` Jerome Glisse
2008-09-23 13:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-09-25 0:18 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-25 7:19 ` Thomas Hellström
2008-09-25 14:38 ` Keith Packard
2008-09-25 15:39 ` Thomas Hellström
2008-09-25 22:41 ` Dave Airlie
2008-09-23 15:50 ` Keith Packard
2008-09-23 18:29 ` Jerome Glisse
2008-09-25 0:30 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-25 1:20 ` Keith Packard
2008-09-25 2:30 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-25 2:43 ` Keith Packard [this message]
2008-09-25 3:07 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-25 6:16 ` Keith Packard
2008-09-25 8:45 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-09-30 1:10 ` Eric Anholt
2008-10-02 17:15 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-10-03 5:17 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-03 6:40 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-23 9:10 Nick Piggin
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