Re: [RFC][PATCH] Anonymous shared memory (ashmem) subsystem

From: John Stultz
Date: Tue Jul 19 2011 - 17:59:13 EST


On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 11:41 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 08:37:43AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > This implementation has some real show-stopper things in it, like its
> > own LRU. But, the concept seems interesting at least.
[snip]
> Having a madvice flag to allow reclaiming tmpfs
> pages, and using the normal VM infrastructure sounds like a perfectly
> fine feature.

Ok. Thanks all for the review and comments. I'll see if something like
what was suggested can be worked out.

thanks again,
-john



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