From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu>
To: Christoph Rohland <hans-christoph.rohland@sap.com>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm+eric@ccr.net>,
fxzhang@chpc.ict.ac.cn, "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: Why don't we make mmap MAP_SHARED with /dev/zero possible?
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 15:29:35 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9911031527070.6110-100000@chiara.csoma.elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <qwwzox6l3nh.fsf@sap.com>
On 26 Oct 1999, Christoph Rohland wrote:
> This lines up with some remarks from Eric Biederman about his shmfs,
> which is BTW a feature I would _love_ to have in Linux to do posix shm
> and perhaps redo sysv shm. He said that he would like to make the
> pagecache highmem-capable and AFAIK the main work for shmfs was
> makeing the pagecache working with writeable pages.
hm, i've got the pagecache in high memory already on my box, patch under
cleanup right now. It was the next natural step after doing all the hard
work to get 64GB RAM support. Eric, is there any conflicting work here?
-- mingo
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next parent reply other threads:[~1999-11-03 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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1999-11-03 14:29 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
1999-11-03 14:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
1999-11-03 16:46 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-11-03 18:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
1999-11-03 19:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
1999-11-03 20:24 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-11-03 19:32 ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1999-11-03 21:41 ` Ingo Molnar
1999-10-26 1:57 fxzhang
1999-10-26 7:35 ` Christoph Rohland
1999-10-26 12:05 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-10-26 12:07 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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