Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/5] add execute in place support

[Coywolf Qi Hunt]

On 5/11/05, Carsten Otte <cotte@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> this is the intro to a small series of patches that introduce execute
> in place into the I/O stack. File I/O to memory-backed block
> devices is performed directly, bypassing the page cache and io
> schedulers. On s390, we use this for block devices based on shared
> memory between multiple virtual machines. This is also useful on
> embedded systems where the block device is located on a flash chip.
> This work is a result of a prior discussion with Andrew Morton
> about my first implementation which basically was a filesystem
> derived from ext2.
> 
> As I'd like to aim for integration into -mm and vanilla later on,
> I'd like to encourage everyone to give it a read and provide
> feedback. All patches apply against git-head as of today.

I feel the name "execute in place" misleading. This is not the real
XIP, IMHO. Invent another term or be tolerant?
-- 
Coywolf Qi Hunt
http://ahbl.org/~coywolf/
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