Re: [ofa-general] Re: Demand paging for memory regions

2008-02-13 Thread Christian Bell
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Right. We (SGI) have done something like this for a long time with XPmem > and it scales ok. I'd dispute this based on experience developing PGAS language support on the Altix but more importantly (and less subjectively), I think that "scales ok" r

Re: [ofa-general] Re: Demand paging for memory regions

2008-02-12 Thread Christian Bell
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > The problem is that the existing wire protocols do not have a > > provision for doing an 'are you ready' or 'I am not ready' exchange > > and they are not designed to store page tables on both sides

Re: [ofa-general] Re: Demand paging for memory regions

2008-02-12 Thread Christian Bell
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > Well, certainly today the memfree IB devices store the page tables in > > host memory so they are already designed to hang onto packets during > > the page lookup over PCIE, adding in faulting makes