lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2014]   [Apr]   [1]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/5] Volatile Ranges (v12) & LSF-MM discussion fodder
On 04/01/2014 02:21 PM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
>
> Either way, optimistic volatile pointers are nowhere near as
> transparent to the application as the above description suggests,
> which makes this usecase not very interesting, IMO.
>

... however, I think you're still derating the value way too much. The
case of user space doing elastic memory management is more and more
common, and for a lot of those applications it is perfectly reasonable
to either not do system calls or to have to devolatilize first.

-hpa



\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2014-04-02 00:21    [W:0.273 / U:0.108 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site