From: Avi K. <av...@qu...> - 2008-01-10 13:27:24
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Robin Holt wrote: > >> The patch does enable some nifty things; one example you may be familiar >> with is using page migration to move a guest from one numa node to another. >> > > xpmem allows one MPI rank to "export" his address space, a different > MPI rank to "import" that address space, and they share the same pages. > This allows sharing of things like stack and heap space. XPMEM also > provides a mechanism to share that PFN information across partition > boundaries so the pages become available on a different host. This, > of course, is dependent upon hardware that supports direct access to > the memory by the processor. > > So this is yet another instance of hardware that has a tlb that needs to be kept in sync with the page tables, yes? Excellent, the more users the patch has, the easier it will be to justify it. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function |