Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] mm: pageable memory allocator (for DRM-GEM?) | From | Keith Packard <> | Date | Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:43:26 -0700 |
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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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