On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 09:12:07AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2015, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > > DAX > > > > DAX is a mechanism for providing direct-memory access to > > high-speed non-volatile (AKA "persistent") memory. Good > > introductions to DAX may be found in the following LWN > > articles: > > DAX is a mechanism to access memory not managed by the kernel and is the > successor to XIP. It just happens to be needed for persistent memory. > Fundamentally any driver can provide an MMAPPed interface to allow access > to a devices memory.
I will take another look, but others in this thread have called out difficulties with DAX's filesystem nature. Thanx, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/