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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/13] Introduce first class virtual address spaces
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On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 09:51:31AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > VAS segments on the other side allow sharing of pure in memory data by
> > arbitrary related tasks without the need of a file. This becomes especially
> > interesting if one combines VAS segments with non-volatile memory since one can keep
> > data structures in the NVM and still be able to share them between multiple tasks.
> 
> What's wrong with regular mmap?

I think it's the usual misunderstandings about how to use mmap.