On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 09:12:07AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2015, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > > DAX > > > > DAX is a mechanism for providing direct-memory access to > > high-speed non-volatile (AKA "persistent") memory. Good > > introductions to DAX may be found in the following LWN > > articles: > > DAX is a mechanism to access memory not managed by the kernel and is the > successor to XIP. It just happens to be needed for persistent memory. > Fundamentally any driver can provide an MMAPPed interface to allow access > to a devices memory. I will take another look, but others in this thread have called out difficulties with DAX's filesystem nature. Thanx, Paul -- 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>