On 09/02/2015 09:00 AM, Boaz Harrosh wrote: >> > We are going to have 2-socket systems with 6TB of persistent memory in >> > them. I think it's important to design this mechanism so that it scales >> > to memory sizes like that and supports large mmap()s. >> > >> > I'm not sure the application you've seen thus far are very >> > representative of what we want to design for. >> > > We have a patch pending to introduce a new mmap flag that pmem aware > applications can set to eliminate any kind of flushing. MMAP_PMEM_AWARE. Great! Do you have a link so that I can review it and compare it to Ross's approach? -- 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>