Re: [patch] mm: pageable memory allocator (for DRM-GEM?)

From: Keith Packard
Date: Thu Sep 25 2008 - 02:17:19 EST


On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 05:07 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:

> That might be the cleanest logical way to do it actually. But for the moment
> I'm happy not to pull tmpfs apart :) Even if it seems like the wrong way
> around, at least it is insulated to within mm/

Sure; no sense changing that before we've gotten some experience with
the new API anyway. Would we consider modifying sysv IPC as well? It
currently uses the shmem_file_setup function although it lives a long
ways from mm...

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