Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] hugetlbd

2006-10-13 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 13.10.2006 [12:02:44 +1000], David Gibson wrote: > Nish, or someone else who understands the sharing implementation: > > Can you explain to me the need for the hugetlbd? i.e. why is it > necessary to have a daemon to manage the shared mappings, rather than > just using a naming convention with

[Libhugetlbfs-devel] hugetlbd

2006-10-12 Thread David Gibson
Nish, or someone else who understands the sharing implementation: Can you explain to me the need for the hugetlbd? i.e. why is it necessary to have a daemon to manage the shared mappings, rather than just using a naming convention within the hugetlbfs to allow the libhugetlbfs instances to direct