Re: [ofa-general] Re: Demand paging for memory regions

2008-02-12 Thread Patrick Geoffray
is not swapping, it's that they do not know when a registered page is released to the OS through free(), sbrk() or munmap(). Like swapping, they don't expect that it will happen often, but they have to handle it gracefully. Patrick -- Patrick Geoffray Myricom, Inc. http://www.myri.com -- To unsubscribe

Re: [ofa-general] Re: Demand paging for memory regions

2008-02-12 Thread Patrick Geoffray
in a NUMA system is a welcome bonus. Patrick -- Patrick Geoffray Myricom, Inc. http://www.myri.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html P

Re: [ofa-general] Re: Demand paging for memory regions

2008-02-12 Thread Patrick Geoffray
is not swapping, it's that they do not know when a registered page is released to the OS through free(), sbrk() or munmap(). Like swapping, they don't expect that it will happen often, but they have to handle it gracefully. Patrick -- Patrick Geoffray Myricom, Inc. http://www.myri.com -- To unsubscribe

Re: [ofa-general] Re: Demand paging for memory regions

2008-02-12 Thread Patrick Geoffray
in a NUMA system is a welcome bonus. Patrick -- Patrick Geoffray Myricom, Inc. http://www.myri.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read

Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH RFC] RDMA/CMA: Allocate PS_TCPportsfrom the host TCP port space.

2007-08-20 Thread Patrick Geoffray
Felix Marti wrote: Yes, the app will take the cache hits when accessing the data. However, the fact remains that if there is a copy in the receive path, you require and additional 3x memory BW (which is very significant at these high rates and most likely the bottleneck for most current

Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH RFC] RDMA/CMA: Allocate PS_TCPportsfrom the host TCP port space.

2007-08-20 Thread Patrick Geoffray
Felix Marti wrote: Yes, the app will take the cache hits when accessing the data. However, the fact remains that if there is a copy in the receive path, you require and additional 3x memory BW (which is very significant at these high rates and most likely the bottleneck for most current