On 04/27/2015 03:26 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > DAX is about directly accessing memory. It is made for the purpose of > serving as a block device for a filesystem right now but it can easily be > used as a way to map any external memory into a processes space using the > abstraction of a block device. But then you can do that with any device > driver using VM_PFNMAP or VM_MIXEDMAP. Maybe we better use that term > instead. Guess I have repeated myself 6 times or so now? I am stopping > with this one. Yeah, please stop. If after 6 times you have still not grasped that having the application manage which memory goes onto the device and which goes in RAM is the exact opposite of the use model that Paul and Jerome are trying to enable (transparent moving around of memory, by eg. GPU calculation libraries), you are clearly not paying enough attention. -- All rights reversed -- 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>