Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Interacting with coherent memory on external devices | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Wed, 22 Apr 2015 11:04:46 +1000 |
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On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 17:57 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > 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.
Right, it doesn't look at all like what we want.
Ben.
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