[openib-general] Re: Re: madvise MADV_DONTFORK/MADV_DOFORK

[Gleb Natapov]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:23:31AM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Quoting r. Gleb Natapov <glebn at voltaire.com>:
> > Subject: Re: Re: madvise MADV_DONTFORK/MADV_DOFORK
> > 
> > On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 06:42:36PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > All, MADV_DONTFORK patch is now part of the -mm tree.
> > > Everyone who's interested in fork support, please test 2.6.16-rc3-mm1 and
> > > publish the results here and on lkml.
> > > 
> > Good news!
> > 
> > Should call to madvise be the part of reg_mr call?
> 
> Probably no - MPI should have to do it.
> 
Then each userspace app will have to reinvent the wheel.
Remember that we should gracefully handle overlapping registrations.

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			Gleb.