Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:57:57 -0700 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: Interacting with coherent memory on external devices |
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:42:52AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 18:49 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Apr 2015, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Use DAX for memory instead of the other approaches? That way it is > > explicitly clear what information is put on the CAPI device. > > Care to elaborate on what DAX is ?
I would like to know as well. My first attempt to Google got me nothing but Star Trek. Is DAX the persistent-memory topic covered here?
https://lwn.net/Articles/591779/ https://lwn.net/Articles/610174/
Ben will correct me if I am wrong, but I do not believe that we are looking for persistent memory in this case.
Thanx, Paul
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