Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756660AbZF2Ugb (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:36:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752776AbZF2UgX (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:36:23 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:43353 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751772AbZF2UgW (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:36:22 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:36:19 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Dan Magenheimer Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, npiggin@suse.de, chris.mason@oracle.com, kurt.hackel@oracle.com, dave.mccracken@oracle.com, Avi Kivity , jeremy@goop.org, Rik van Riel , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Rusty Russell , Martin Schwidefsky , akpm@osdl.org, Marcelo Tosatti , Balbir Singh , tmem-devel@oss.oracle.com, sunil.mushran@oracle.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, Himanshu Raj Subject: Re: [RFC] transcendent memory for Linux Message-ID: <20090629203619.GA6611@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20090624150420.GH1784@ucw.cz> <0dbec206-c157-4482-8fd7-4ccf9c2bdc5a@default> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0dbec206-c157-4482-8fd7-4ccf9c2bdc5a@default> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 938 Lines: 28 > It is documented currently at: > > http://oss.oracle.com/projects/tmem/documentation/api/ > > (just noticed I still haven't posted version 0.0.2 which > has a few minor changes). > > I will add a briefer description of this API in Documentation/ Please do. At least TMEM_NEW_POOL() looks quite ugly. Why uuid? Mixing flags into size argument is strange. > It is in-kernel only because some of the operations have > a parameter that is a physical page frame number. In-kernel API is probably better described as function prototypes. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/