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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	nish.aravamudan@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/8] Mapped File Policy Overview
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 14:17:56 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705241417130.31587@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1180040744.5327.110.camel@localhost>

On Thu, 24 May 2007, Lee Schermerhorn wrote:

> Same use cases for using mbind() at all.  I want to specify the
> placement of memory backing any of my address space.  A shared mapping
> of a regular file is, IMO, morally equivalent to a shared memory region,
> with the added semantic that is it automatically initialized from the
> file contents, and any changes persist after the file is closed.  [One
> related semantic that Linux is missing is to initialize the shared
> mapping from the file, but not writeback any changes--e.g.,
> MAP_NOWRITEBACK.  Some "enterprise unix" support this, presumably at
> ISV/customer request.]

I think Andi was looking for an actual problem that is solved by this 
patchset. Any user feedback that triggered this solution?

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-24 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-24 17:28 Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-24 17:28 ` [PATCH/RFC 1/8] Mapped File Policy: move shared policy to inode/mapping Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-24 17:28 ` [PATCH/RFC 2/8] Mapped File Policy: allocate shared policies as needed Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-24 17:28 ` [PATCH/RFC 3/8] Mapped File Policy: let vma policy ops handle sub-vma policies Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-24 17:28 ` [PATCH/RFC 4/8] Mapped File Policy: add generic file set/get policy vm ops Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-24 17:28 ` [PATCH/RFC 5/8] Mapped File Policy: Factor alloc_page_pol routine Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-24 17:29 ` [PATCH/RFC 6/8] Mapped File Policy: use file policy for page cache allocations Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-24 17:29 ` [PATCH/RFC 7/8] Mapped File Policy: fix migration of private mappings Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-24 17:29 ` [PATCH/RFC 8/8] Mapped File Policy: fix show_numa_maps() Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-24 19:24 ` [PATCH/RFC 0/8] Mapped File Policy Overview Christoph Lameter
2007-05-24 20:46   ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-24 20:41 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-24 21:05   ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-24 21:17     ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2007-05-25 14:55       ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-25 15:25         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-25 16:06           ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-25 16:24             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-25 17:37               ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-25 19:10                 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-25 21:12                   ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-25 21:43                     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-25 21:01                 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 21:41                   ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-25 21:46                     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-29 13:57                       ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-25 21:03           ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-25 21:14             ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-05-25 22:44               ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-29 14:17                 ` Lee Schermerhorn

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