Re: [HACKERS] mmap and MAP_ANON

> *But*,
> (I was thinking about this,)
> we should IMHO take a step backwards to get a better view
> over the whole memory subsystem.
> - Why and for what is shared memory used in the first place?
> - Could we use mmap:ing of files at a higher level then
>   src/backend/strorage/ipc/ipc.c to get even better performance
>   and cleaness?

Yes, we could use mmap() to map the actual files.  I will post time
timings on this soon.

The shared memory acts as a cache for us, that can be locked and not
read in/out of the address space for each sharing, like it does when we
use the OS buffer cache.

> 
> I will, time permitting, look into cleaning up the shmem-init/exit
> routines
> to work in a "no-exec" environment. I also has a hack to use
> mmap-shared/private,
> which of course is untested, since it does not work on my linux-boxen.
> 
> 	regards,
> -- 
> ---------------------------------------------
> Gran Thyni, sysadm, JMS Bildbasen, Kiruna
> 


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