linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] xen: cleancache shim to Xen Transcendent Memory

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Date:	Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:02:15 +0100
From:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
To:	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: cleancache shim to Xen Transcendent Memory

On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 14:20 -0700, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> [PATCH] xen: cleancache shim to Xen Transcendent Memory
> 
> This patch provides a shim between the kernel-internal cleancache
> API (see Documentation/mm/cleancache.txt) and the Xen Transcendent
> Memory ABI (see http://oss.oracle.com/projects/tmem).

There's no need to build this into a kernel which doesn't have
cleancache (or one of the other frontends), is there? I think there
should be a Kconfig option (even if its not a user visible one) with the
appropriate depends/selects.

Ian.

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