Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Jun 2005 18:12:55 +0800 | From | Coywolf Qi Hunt <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/5] add execute in place support |
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On 5/11/05, Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> wrote: > Folks, > > this is the intro to a small series of patches that introduce execute > in place into the I/O stack. File I/O to memory-backed block > devices is performed directly, bypassing the page cache and io > schedulers. On s390, we use this for block devices based on shared > memory between multiple virtual machines. This is also useful on > embedded systems where the block device is located on a flash chip. > This work is a result of a prior discussion with Andrew Morton > about my first implementation which basically was a filesystem > derived from ext2. > > As I'd like to aim for integration into -mm and vanilla later on, > I'd like to encourage everyone to give it a read and provide > feedback. All patches apply against git-head as of today.
I feel the name "execute in place" misleading. This is not the real XIP, IMHO. Invent another term or be tolerant? -- Coywolf Qi Hunt http://ahbl.org/~coywolf/ - 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/
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