On Tue, 21 Apr 2015, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > Ben will correct me if I am wrong, but I do not believe that we are > looking for persistent memory in this case. DAX is way of mapping special memory into user space. Persistance is one possible use case. Its like the XIP that you IBMers know from z/OS or the 390 mainframe stuff. Its been widely discussed at memory managenent meetings. A bit surprised that this is not a well known thing. -- 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>