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SubjectRe: [patch] mm: pageable memory allocator (for DRM-GEM?)
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On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 04:30 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:

> OK. I will have to add some facilities to allow mmaps that go back through
> to tmpfs and be swappable... Thanks for the data point.

It seems like once you've done that you might consider extracting the
page allocator from shmem so that drm, tmpfs and sysv IPC would share
the same underlying memory manager API.

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keith.packard@intel.com
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