On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 17:30 -0500, Jes Sorensen wrote: > > For userspace it's used by some of the MPI type apps in userland.
you got to be kidding. Why are these MPI apps accessing memory that the kernel has mapped cached (eg ram) via /dev/mem? (eg my proposal is to make /dev/mem to be just device memory not kernel accessable ram; wouldn't that solve the entire issue cleanly ?) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/