Re: [PATCH, RFC] shmat: introduce flag SHM_MAP_HINT

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Oct 07 2008 - 07:15:27 EST


> Honestly, I don't like that qemu specific feature insert into shmem core.

I wouldn't say it's a qemu specific interface. While qemu would
be the first user I would expect more in the future. It's a pretty
obvious extension. In fact it nearly should be default, if the
risk of breaking old applications wasn't too high.

-Andi

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