Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Feb 2004 05:04:43 -0800 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range |
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 07:01:41PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:56:08AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > inter-node cache consistency. Other distributed filesystems will need this > > and probably AIX already provides it. > > You've probably not seen the AIX VM architecture. Good for you as it's > not good for your stomache. I did when I still was SCAldera and although > my NDAs don't allow me to go into details I can tell you that the AIX > VM architecture is deeply tied into the segment architecture of the Power > CPU and signicicantly different from any other UNIX variant. > > So porting code from AIX that touches anything VM related is a complete > rewrite.
Or, alternatively, requires a surprisingly large glue-code layer.
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