Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH v2 00/12] Introduce memfd support

2016-02-13 Thread Ahmed S. Darwish
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 04:58:43PM +0100, David Henningsson wrote: > > On 2016-02-12 16:04, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: ... > > Thanks for the explanations! This is a good summary. > anytime :-) > > >- We now have 3 mempools in the system: a global mempool, and 2 > > per-client mempools. One crea

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH v2 00/12] Introduce memfd support

2016-02-12 Thread David Henningsson
On 2016-02-12 16:04, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 11:57:00AM +0100, David Henningsson wrote: On 2016-02-12 00:59, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: Hello! Hi and thanks for working on it! Having skimmed through the patches, I'm still not convinced w r t auto-send mechanism of the

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH v2 00/12] Introduce memfd support

2016-02-12 Thread Ahmed S. Darwish
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 11:57:00AM +0100, David Henningsson wrote: > > On 2016-02-12 00:59, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > >Hello! > > Hi and thanks for working on it! > > Having skimmed through the patches, I'm still not convinced w r t auto-send > mechanism of the memfds. > > E g, consider we have

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH v2 00/12] Introduce memfd support

2016-02-12 Thread David Henningsson
On 2016-02-12 00:59, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: Hello! Hi and thanks for working on it! Having skimmed through the patches, I'm still not convinced w r t auto-send mechanism of the memfds. E g, consider we have clients 1 and 2, and client 1 plays back audio to a sink. Client 2 monitors the

[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH v2 00/12] Introduce memfd support

2016-02-11 Thread Ahmed S. Darwish
Hello! The all-improved memfd patch series ;-) ==> v1 cover letter: Memfd is a simple memory sharing mechanism, added by the systemd/kdbus developers, to share pages between processes in an anonymous, no global registry needed, no mount-point required, relatively secure, manner. This patch seri