Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:31:41 -0500 | From | Anthony Liguori <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/4] add ksm kernel shared memory driver. |
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Izik Eidus wrote: > Anthony, the biggest problem about madvice() is that it is a real > system call api, i wouldnt want in that stage of ksm commit into api > changes of linux... > > The ioctl itself is restricting, madvice is much more..., > > Can we draft this issue to after ksm is merged, and after all the big > new fetures that we want to add to ksm will be merge.... > (then the api would be much more stable, and we will be able to ask > ppl in the list about changing of api, but for new driver that it yet > to be merged, it is kind of overkill to add api to linux) > > What do you think?
You can't change ABIs after something is merged or you break userspace. So you need to figure out the right ABI first.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
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