Re: [PATCH] fix remap of shared read only mappings

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Sep 04 2003 - 20:09:47 EST


On Gwe, 2003-09-05 at 01:49, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> What really matters is that mmap() under Linux is 100% coherent, as far as
> the hardware just allows. We haven't taken the easy way out. We shouldn't
> start now.

NFS ?

The problem with OpenGFS is that it is a network file system so
implementing "perfect" shared mmap semantics might actually reduce it
from handy to useless. Right now the worst we have to do is mark pages
uncached in some weird shared map cases, with pages being bounced across
firewire its a bit different.

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