[ofa-general] Memory registration redux

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Supalov, Alexander wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Intel MPI developers are in principle OK with this proposal. What way of delivery is envisioned? Will this become a part of OFED or of the mainstream kernel? 
Roland is planing to push it to kernel 2.6.31
And OFED will take it from the kernel.
We will check if we can do backports for distros. I assume it will be 
available only for distros that have the MMU notifiers in the kernel.
> How fast will it spread? Are there any comparable Windows plans?
>
>   
I cannot answer on Windows

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