From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A435A6B004D for ; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:35:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:36:19 +0200 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [RFC] transcendent memory for Linux Message-ID: <20090629203619.GA6611@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20090624150420.GH1784@ucw.cz> <0dbec206-c157-4482-8fd7-4ccf9c2bdc5a@default> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0dbec206-c157-4482-8fd7-4ccf9c2bdc5a@default> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Dan Magenheimer Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, npiggin@suse.de, chris.mason@oracle.com, kurt.hackel@oracle.com, dave.mccracken@oracle.com, Avi Kivity , jeremy@goop.org, Rik van Riel , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Rusty Russell , Martin Schwidefsky , akpm@osdl.org, Marcelo Tosatti , Balbir Singh , tmem-devel@oss.oracle.com, sunil.mushran@oracle.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, Himanshu Raj List-ID: > It is documented currently at: > > http://oss.oracle.com/projects/tmem/documentation/api/ > > (just noticed I still haven't posted version 0.0.2 which > has a few minor changes). > > I will add a briefer description of this API in Documentation/ Please do. At least TMEM_NEW_POOL() looks quite ugly. Why uuid? Mixing flags into size argument is strange. > It is in-kernel only because some of the operations have > a parameter that is a physical page frame number. In-kernel API is probably better described as function prototypes. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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