Re: [rfc][api] Shared Memory Binding

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:55:54PM -0800, Matthew Dobson wrote:
> Hello All,
> 	I've got a pseudo manpage for a new call I'm attempting to implement: 
> shmbind().  The idea of the call is to allow userspace processes to bind 
> shared memory segments to particular nodes' memory and do so according 
> to certain policies.  Processes would call shmget() as usual, but before 
> calling shmat(), the process could call shmbind() to set up a binding 
> for the segment.  Then, any time pages from the shared segment are 
> faulted into memory, it would be done according to this binding.
> 	Any comments about the attatched manpage, the idea in general, how to 
> improve it, etc. are definitely welcome.

Do we really need to add more mess to the broken sysvipc interfaces?
I think an shm_open_on_node call for posix-style shm would be a much better
idea.

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