From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Cc: 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: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:07:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080925030738.GD4401@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1222310606.4343.174.camel@koto.keithp.com>
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 07:43:26PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> 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.
That might be the cleanest logical way to do it actually. But for the moment
I'm happy not to pull tmpfs apart :) Even if it seems like the wrong way
around, at least it is insulated to within mm/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-25 3:07 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
2008-09-25 3:07 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
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
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2008-09-23 9:10 Nick Piggin
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