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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
