Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:10:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
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       daniel.blueman@quadrics.com, Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
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Subject: Re: Demand paging for memory regions (was Re: MMU Notifiers V6)
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Steve Wise wrote:

> Chelsio's T3 HW doesn't support this.

Not so far I guess but it could be equipped with these features right? 

Having the VM manage the memory area for Infiniband allows more reliable 
system operations and enables the sharing of large memory areas via 
Infiniband without the risk of livelocks or OOMs.

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