From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 13:21:19 +0200 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] shmat: introduce flag SHM_MAP_HINT Message-ID: <20081007112119.GG20740@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20081006132651.GG3180@one.firstfloor.org> <1223303879-5555-1-git-send-email-kirill@shutemov.name> <20081007195837.5A6B.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081007195837.5A6B.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton List-ID: > Honestly, I don't like that qemu specific feature insert into shmem core. I wouldn't say it's a qemu specific interface. While qemu would be the first user I would expect more in the future. It's a pretty obvious extension. In fact it nearly should be default, if the risk of breaking old applications wasn't too high. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- 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-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org