Re: CVS commit: src/sys

[Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rmind%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost> wrote:
> > Log Message:
> > Replace tmpfs_pool custom allocator code with a simpler layer for memory
> > accounting.  Use wired memory (which can be limited) for meta-data, and
> > kmem(9) for string allocations.
> > 
> > Close PR/31944.  Fix PR/38361 while here.  OK ad@.
> 
> Are these the fixes to get shm_open(3) and shm_unlink(3) in libc ?
> 

Well, memory of UVM objects is still pageable.  I think the way to go
for POSIX shm is a kernel implementation with wired-only memory support,
but limiting enabled and configurable - that avoids lots of complexity.

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Mindaugas