Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 3/11] x86, mm, pat: Change reserve_memtype() to handle WT type | From | Toshi Kani <> | Date | Wed, 16 Jul 2014 08:35:31 -0600 |
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On Tue, 2014-07-15 at 17:28 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> wrote: : > > In this patch, I left using reserve_ram_pages_type() since I do not see > > much reason to use WT for RAM, either. > > I hereby predict that someone, some day, will build a system with > nonvolatile "RAM", and someone will want this feature. Just saying :) > > More realistically, someone might want to write a silly driver that > lets programs mmap some WT memory for testing.
Agreed. This limitation needs to be addressed. I meant to say that this could be a separate effort.
Thanks, -Toshi
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