From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Rohland Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] [rfc][api] Shared Memory Binding Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:48:07 +0100 In-Reply-To: <3E4978B6.9030201@us.ibm.com> (Matthew Dobson's message of "Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:27:02 -0800") Message-ID: References: <3E4978B6.9030201@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: colpatch@us.ibm.com Cc: "Luck, Tony" , "Martin J. Bligh" , Michael Hohnbaum , lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Hi Matt, On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Matthew Dobson wrote: > I'd hoped to see how this proposal and pending patch went over with > everyone, before attempting anything more broad. My last attempt at > something similar to this failed due to being too invasive and > complicated. My thoughts were to try something fairly > straightforward and simple this time. But SYSV shm is a thin layer on top of tmpfs, which again is a thin layer on top of the page cache. So if you want to have something simple, you should work on the generic layer. For me a general mmbind() makes much more sense. Greetings Christoph -- 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: aart@kvack.org