From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:38:06 -0500 From: Dave McCracken Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.43-mm2] New shared page table patch Message-ID: <9100000.1035470286@baldur.austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <2832683854.1035444175@[10.10.2.3]> References: <2832683854.1035444175@[10.10.2.3]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Martin J. Bligh" , Bill Davidsen Cc: Rik van Riel , "Eric W. Biederman" , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , Linux Memory Management List-ID: --On Thursday, October 24, 2002 07:22:56 -0700 "Martin J. Bligh" wrote: >> Another thought, how does this play with NUMA systems? I don't have the >> problem, but presumably there are implications. > > At some point we'll probably only want one shared set per node. > Gets tricky when you migrate processes across nodes though - will > need more thought Page tables can only be shared when they're pointing to the same data pages anyway, so I think it's just part of the larger problem of node-local memory. Dave McCracken ====================================================================== Dave McCracken IBM Linux Base Kernel Team 1-512-838-3059 dmccr@us.ibm.com T/L 678-3059 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/