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From: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rfc] generic allocator and mspec driver
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 17:31:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050203173155.GC26062@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16897.9640.160896.31584@jaguar.mkp.net>

On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:55:26AM -0500, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Is this because the applications will normally allocate their fetchops
> in the main thread before spawning off the threads? If the mmap is
> done by the thread that will 'own' the individual fetchop this
> wouldn't be a problem? Sorry, just trying to understand the nature of
> how these applications work, my knowledge of MPI etc. is ehm
> ... limited ;)

That is the normal way of doing things.  Nearly all large applications
have been operating under that assumption for a very long time
and changing all those apps to do the mmap after spawning workers
is unlikely.

Robin

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-02-03 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-02 19:10 [rfc] generic allocator and mspec driver Jes Sorensen
2005-02-02 19:46 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-02-02 23:33 ` Jack Steiner
2005-02-03  7:47 ` Jes Sorensen
2005-02-03  8:38 ` Jes Sorensen
2005-02-03 11:19 ` Robin Holt
2005-02-03 14:55 ` Jes Sorensen
2005-02-03 17:06 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-02-03 17:31 ` Dean Roe
2005-02-03 17:31 ` Robin Holt [this message]
2005-02-03 17:41 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-02-03 18:54 ` Jack Steiner
2005-02-03 19:39 ` David Mosberger
2005-02-03 20:58 ` Jes Sorensen
2005-02-03 21:40 ` Luck, Tony
2005-02-04  1:00 ` David Mosberger
2005-02-13 21:57 ` Jes Sorensen
2005-02-14 19:12 ` Luck, Tony
2005-02-14 19:17 ` David Mosberger
2005-02-15  8:43 ` Jes Sorensen
2005-02-15  8:44 ` Jes Sorensen
2005-02-15 17:35 ` Grant Grundler
2005-02-15 18:04 ` David Mosberger
2005-02-15 18:05 ` David Mosberger
2005-02-15 19:11 ` Robin Holt
2005-02-15 19:19 ` David Mosberger
2005-02-15 19:49 ` Robin Holt
2005-02-15 19:59 ` Jes Sorensen
2005-02-15 20:02 ` Jes Sorensen
2005-02-15 20:24 ` Robin Holt
2005-02-16  7:32 ` Jes Sorensen
2005-02-16 14:17 ` Jes Sorensen
2005-02-16 17:50 ` Luck, Tony
2005-02-16 18:18 ` Luck, Tony
2005-02-16 19:10 ` Jes Sorensen
2005-02-16 21:02 ` David Mosberger

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