From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:10:20 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: [patch 2/6] mmu_notifier: Callbacks to invalidate address ranges Message-ID: <20080228011020.GG8091@v2.random> References: <20080215064859.384203497@sgi.com> <20080215064932.620773824@sgi.com> <200802201008.49933.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <20080228001104.GB8091@v2.random> <20080228005249.GF8091@v2.random> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Nick Piggin , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Robin Holt , Avi Kivity , Izik Eidus , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Peter Zijlstra , general@lists.openfabrics.org, Steve Wise , Roland Dreier , Kanoj Sarcar , steiner@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com List-ID: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 05:03:21PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > RDMA works across a network and I would assume that it needs confirmation > that a connection has been torn down before pages can be unmapped. Depends on the latency of the network, for example with page pinning it can even try to reduce the wait time, by tearing down the mapping in range_begin and spin waiting the ack only later in range_end. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org