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SubjectRe: [patch] mm: pageable memory allocator (for DRM-GEM?)
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 07:43:26PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> 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.

That might be the cleanest logical way to do it actually. But for the moment
I'm happy not to pull tmpfs apart :) Even if it seems like the wrong way
around, at least it is insulated to within mm/



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