On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 04:56:36PM -0600, Ross Zwisler wrote: > I think this goes back to our previous discussion about support for the PMEM > programming model. Really I think what NVML needs isn't a way to tell if it > is getting a DAX mapping, but whether it is getting a DAX mapping on a > filesystem that fully supports the PMEM programming model. This of course is > defined to be a filesystem where it can do all of its flushes from userspace > safely and never call fsync/msync, and that allocations that happen in page > faults will be synchronized to media before the page fault completes. That's a an easy way to flag: you will never get that from a Linux filesystem, period. NVML folks really need to stop taking crack and dreaming this could happen. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
