On Mon 16-10-17 11:54:47, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Mon 2017-10-16 10:18:04, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Sun 15-10-17 08:58:56, Pavel Machek wrote: [...] > > > So you'd suggest using ioctl() for allocating memory? > > > > Why not using standard mmap on the device fd? > > No, sorry, that's something very different work, right? Lets say I > have a disk, and I'd like to write to it, using continguous memory for > performance. > > So I mmap(MAP_CONTIG) 1GB working of working memory, prefer some data > structures there, maybe recieve from network, then decide to write > some and not write some other. Why would you want this? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
