[ofiwg] Hugepages usage in libfabric

Hefty, Sean sean.hefty at intel.com
Wed Apr 10 10:01:57 PDT 2019


> > > If the app isn't forking it shouldn't even be calling ibv_fork_init in
> > > the first place, which solves both problems.
> >
> > Libfabric calls this because it has no idea if the higher level user
> > will call fork or not.  The default is to assume this for
> > correctness.
> 
> You think the rest of libfabric is fork safe?

There's no guarantee that library objects will be usable across fork.



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