Quoting r. Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I did consider this, and I don't know when we'll start hitting issues > allocating > a single data buffer. But we're going to ask for 10,000 256-byte buffers - > over > 2.5 MB of kernel memory in order to perform this single data transfer. Is it > likely that we can allocate that much memory, but not the 40k buffer? I > really > don't know. If the answer is yes, then I agree that using a linked list would > be better.
It seems to me a linked list is a better short term solution. Lets consider NodeInfo record. It seems a MAD segment would include only 4 of these. So on a modest 4K node cluster to get a list of all of them requires 1K segments. Keeping these in an array would need 8K bytes on a 64 bit server. -- Michael S. Tsirkin Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
