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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:31:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.43-mm2] New shared page table patch
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On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, 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

The whole issue of pages shared between nodes is a graduate thesis waiting
to happen.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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