[openib-general] [openfabrics-ewg] RHEL5 and OFED ...

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Shirley Ma <xma at us.ibm.com>:
> Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] [openib-general] RHEL5 and OFED ...
> 
> Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com> wrote on 10/19/2006 09:19:14 AM:
> 
> >     Shirley> How can RHEL5 pick up this particular patch? Applications
> >     Shirley> with fork() depend on this patch.
> > 
> > It can't really, since it breaks the libibverbs ABI and therefore has
> > to be part of a major release.
> 
> Then we need to wait for the new release or find an alternative way which I doubt.

It is actually possible: You can use malloc hooks to set the madvise flag for
all allocated memory. This will include memory allocated by libibverbs and its
plugins and memory you are going to register.

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