Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 03 Sep 2015 09:41:38 +0300 | From | Boaz Harrosh <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] dax, pmem: add support for msync |
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On 09/02/2015 07:19 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 09/02/2015 09:00 AM, Boaz Harrosh wrote: >>>> We are going to have 2-socket systems with 6TB of persistent memory in >>>> them. I think it's important to design this mechanism so that it scales >>>> to memory sizes like that and supports large mmap()s. >>>> >>>> I'm not sure the application you've seen thus far are very >>>> representative of what we want to design for. >>>> >> We have a patch pending to introduce a new mmap flag that pmem aware >> applications can set to eliminate any kind of flushing. MMAP_PMEM_AWARE. > > Great! Do you have a link so that I can review it and compare it to > Ross's approach? >
Ha? I have not seen a new mmap flag from Ross, yet I have been off lately so it is logical that I might have missed it.
Could you send me a link?
(BTW my patch I did not release yet, I'll cc you once its done)
Thanks Boaz
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