On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 09:19:10PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: > On 04.07.24 21:03, David Hildenbrand wrote: > > > shmem has two uses: > > > > > > - MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_SHARED (this patch set) > > > - tmpfs > > > > > > For the second use case we don't want controls *at all*, we want the > > > same heiristics used for all other filesystems to apply to tmpfs. > > > > As discussed in the MM meeting, Hugh had a different opinion on that. > > FWIW, I just recalled that I wrote a quick summary: > > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f1783ff0-65bd-4b2b-8952-52b6822a0835@xxxxxxxxxx > > I believe the meetings are recorded as well, but never looked at recordings. That's not what I understood Hugh to mean. To me, it seemed that Hugh was expressing an opinion on using shmem as shmem, not as using it as tmpfs. If I misunderstood Hugh, well, I still disagree. We should not have separate controls for this. tmpfs is just not that special.
