Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:31:40 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 - fixing deadlocks |
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On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
> The OS has no business knowing what's inside that SHM page.
exactly.
> IF the shm contains I/O cache, maybe you're right. However, > until you know that this is the case, optimising for that > situation just doesn't make any sense.
if the shm contains raw I/O data, then thats flawed application design - an mmap()-ed file should be used instead. Shm is equivalent to shared anonymous pages.
Ingo
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