[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH v3 00/11] Introduce memfd support

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 10:01 +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
> 
> On 2016-03-12 23:35, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
> > 
> > Hello!
> > 
> > The simplified memfd patch series ;-)
> Hi!
> 
> Good work!
> 
> I've read through the patch series and think they look pretty much okay, 
> and your amount of testing is exemplary.
> 
> Surely there are nitpicks here and there but at this point I think maybe 
> we're better off merging the patch series as it is to get wider testing 
> from developers using it in practice.
> 
> My only concern or thought is about the global mempool. By turning that 
> into a memfd by default, we would potentially slow down clients which 
> support posix shm but not memfd. I'm not sure if this is a problem in 
> practice though - even an old closed-source client would (hopefully?) 
> bind to a new libpulse library and thus gain memfd support that way, and 
> I hope nobody links libpulse statically. Thoughts?
> 
> Arun, Tanu, should I go ahead and commit this or do you want to review 
> it as well?

I trust your review, I have no plans to do another pass. Thank you both
for your efforts!

-- 
Tanu