From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.suse.de (mx2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ml01.01.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 42A7321136001 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2018 03:09:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 12:09:49 +0200 From: Johannes Thumshirn Subject: Re: Problems with VM_MIXEDMAP removal from /proc//smaps Message-ID: <20181004100949.GF6682@linux-x5ow.site> References: <20181002100531.GC4135@quack2.suse.cz> <20181002121039.GA3274@linux-x5ow.site> <20181002142010.GB4963@linux-x5ow.site> <20181002144547.GA26735@infradead.org> <20181002150123.GD4963@linux-x5ow.site> <20181002150634.GA22209@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181002150634.GA22209@infradead.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Errors-To: linux-nvdimm-bounces@lists.01.org Sender: "Linux-nvdimm" To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Jan Kara , linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, mhocko@suse.cz, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 08:06:34AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > There is no promise, sorry. Well there have been lot's of articles on for instance lwn.net [1] [2] [3] describing how to avoid the "overhead" of the page cache when running on persistent memory. So if I would be a database developer, I'd look into them and see how I could exploit this for my needs. So even if we don't want to call it a promise, it was at least an advertisement and people are now taking our word for it. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/610174/ [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/717953/ [3] https://lwn.net/Articles/684828/ = Byte, Johannes -- = Johannes Thumshirn Storage jthumshirn@suse.de +49 911 74053 689 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg GF: Felix Imend=F6rffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG N=FCrnberg) Key fingerprint =3D EC38 9CAB C2C4 F25D 8600 D0D0 0393 969D 2D76 0850 _______________________________________________ Linux-nvdimm mailing list Linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvdimm