From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 28so3793094wfc.11 for ; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:38:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2f11576a0810071438x59e51b74rc8c1919c14739395@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 06:38:07 +0900 From: "KOSAKI Motohiro" Subject: Re: [PATCH, v3] shmat: introduce flag SHM_MAP_NOT_FIXED In-Reply-To: <20081007211038.GQ20740@one.firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1223396117-8118-1-git-send-email-kirill@shutemov.name> <2f11576a0810070931k79eb72dfr838a96650563b93a@mail.gmail.com> <20081007211038.GQ20740@one.firstfloor.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andi Kleen Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Ingo Molnar , Arjan van de Ven , Hugh Dickins , Alan Cox , Ulrich Drepper , Andrew Morton List-ID: >> Sorry, no. >> This description still doesn't explain why this interface is needed. >> >> The one of the points is this interface is used by another person or not. >> You should explain how large this interface benefit has. >> >> Andi kleen explained this interface _can_ be used another one. >> but nobody explain who use it actually. > > Anyone who doesn't want to use fixed addresses. yup. however, almost application doesn't use new flag because almost application want to works on cross platform. (or merely lazy) then, this explain isn't enough, imo. -- 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