Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:38:06 -0500 | From | Dave McCracken <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.5.43-mm2] New shared page table patch |
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--On Thursday, October 24, 2002 07:22:56 -0700 "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> 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
Page tables can only be shared when they're pointing to the same data pages anyway, so I think it's just part of the larger problem of node-local memory.
Dave McCracken
====================================================================== Dave McCracken IBM Linux Base Kernel Team 1-512-838-3059 dmccr@us.ibm.com T/L 678-3059
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