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Date:      Tue, 29 Feb 2000 14:41:41 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>, Cliff Rowley <dozprompt@onsea.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Shared memory - Was: 2 Queries
Message-ID:  <200002291941.OAA57576@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200002291847.KAA85965@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <20000229021327.E21720@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002290954410.917-100000@merlin.onsea.com> <20000229134143.B4903@netmonger.net> <200002291847.KAA85965@apollo.backplane.com>

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<<On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:47:33 -0800 (PST), Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> said:

>     Maybe we can convince them / submit patches to use mmap() based shared
>     memory (file-backed), which we can now do efficiently with the 
>     MAP_NOSYNC option.

Even better would be POSIX shared memory.  It wouldn't be too hard to
have the shm_open() syscall set a file flag which mmap() would them
look at to conditionally set MAP_NOSYNC on its own.

-GAWollman

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