> Hey Cliff, we are planning to implement virtwin() if you remember that
> from PTX. AWE on NT was derived from the same work. There should soon
> be some discussion about it on lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net or I can
> give you some more data...
Please implement it in userspace, using large POSIX shared memory
segments and mmaping / munmapping them as needed.
This seems like a special enough case to keep it out of the kernel
entirely. If there's something not efficient enough we could work
on optimising the whole mmap & munmap path...
cheers,
Rik
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