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

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Date:	Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:16:59 -0700
From:	Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Cc:	keithp@...thp.com, eric@...olt.net, hugh@...itas.com,
	hch@...radead.org, airlied@...ux.ie, jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org,
	thomas@...gstengraphics.com, dri-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] mm: pageable memory allocator (for DRM-GEM?)

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...

-- 
keith.packard@...el.com

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