From: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thomas@tungstengraphics.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Driver-driven paging?
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:24:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <452E8849.8050201@surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <452A7AD3.5050006@yahoo.com.au>
Nick Piggin wrote:
> Your best bet might be to have a userspace "memory manager" process, which
> allocates pages (anonymous or file backed), and has your device driver
> access them with get_user_pages. The get_user_pages takes care of faulting
> the pages back in, and when they are released, the memory manager will
> swap them out on demand.
Wouldn't tmpfs be simpler ?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-12 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-09 15:21 Thomas Hellstrom
2006-10-09 16:37 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-09 17:45 ` Thomas Hellström
2006-10-10 0:47 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 6:04 ` Thomas Hellström
2006-10-12 18:24 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2006-10-13 6:29 ` Nick Piggin
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