On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 04:14:08PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Erm. This would also be needed by RDMA etc. > > The only RDMA I know is Quadrics, and Quadrics apparently doesn't need > to schedule inside the invalidate methods AFIK, so I doubt the above > is true. It'd be interesting to know if IB is like Quadrics and it > also doesn't require blocking to invalidate certain remote mappings.
RDMA works across a network and I would assume that it needs confirmation that a connection has been torn down before pages can be unmapped. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
