From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Owens Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 00:15:18 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: [RFC] NUMA functions for accessing replicated areas Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 18:02:20 -0600 (CST), Jack Steiner wrote: >There is one thing that occurred to me. Currently, on IA64, the replicated >data is read-execute. The NUMA code known how to write it but I dont >know if you want to teach kdb how to do it. That is exactly what I don't want to do. I want numa_putarea_size to take a virtual target address and copy the data to all instances of that target address. kdb should not know about translating one to many, the numa functions hide that complexity from anything that needs to update replicated data.