linux的内存区域,Linux上的可清除内存区域

In computing,transcendent memory (aka “tmem”) is a concept explored by Dan Magenheimer.

Transcendent memory is a class of memory that is of unknown and dynamically variable size,is addressable only indirectly by the kernel,can be configured either as persistent or as “ephemeral” (meaning it will be around for a while,but might disappear without warning),and is still fast enough to be synchronously accessible

One can think of transcendent memory as a sort of RAM disk with some interesting characteristics: nobody knows how big it is,writes to the disk may not succeed,and,potentially,data written to the disk may vanish before being read back again. At a first blush,it may seem like a relatively useless sort of device,but it is hoped that transcendent memory will be able to improve performance in a few situations.

Introduced in Linux kernel 2.6.39.[1][2] Implementation by Dan Magenheimer of Oracle Corporation. Xen 4.0 supports tmem in the hypervisor.