Re: [PATCH] Physical Memory Management [0/1]

[MichaÅ Nazarewicz]

> On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 12:47 +0200, MichaÅ Nazarewicz wrote:
>> I cannot create a huge page SysV shared memory segment
>> with pages of specified size, can I?

On Fri, 15 May 2009 13:03:34 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Well, hugetlbfs is a fs, so you can simply create a file on there and
> map that shared -- much saner interface than sysvshm if you ask me.

It's not a question of being sane or not, it's a question of whether
X server supports it and it doesn't.  X can read data from Sys V shm
to avoid needles copying (or sending via unix socket or whatever)
pixmaps (or whatever) and so PMM lets it read from continuous blocks
without knowing or carying about it.

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