Subject: Re: tmpfs: Internal representation of data
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/21/2005 12:59:01
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On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 04:10:42PM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
> If you make your filespace allocator use physical pages, you have
> the advantage of just keeping the physical page around without a
> virtual mapping. =20

I strongly suspect it will make things easier at the other end of the
pipeline as well, where you want to loan the pages to consumers of the
file data, including executables, without having to copy or adjust
alignments..

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Dan.
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