From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:54:27 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 - fixing deadlocks Message-ID: <20000928165427.K17518@athlon.random> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from mingo@elte.hu on Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 01:31:40PM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Rik van Riel , Christoph Rohland , "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Linus Torvalds , Roger Larsson , MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 01:31:40PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > if the shm contains raw I/O data, then thats flawed application design - > an mmap()-ed file should be used instead. Shm is equivalent to shared The DBMS uses shared SCSI disks across multiple hosts on the same SCSI bus and synchronize the distributed cache via TCP. Tell me how to do that with the OS cache and mmap. Andrea -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/