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Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:41:35 +0100
From: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
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Subject: Re: [patch 1/6] mmu_notifier: Core code
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> What is the status of getting infiniband to use this facility?
>
> How important is this feature to KVM?
>
> To xpmem?
>
> Which other potential clients have been identified and how important it it
> to those?
>   

As I said when Andrea posted the first patch series, I used something
very similar for non-RDMA-based HPC about 4 years ago. I haven't had
time yet to look in depth and try the latest proposed API but my feeling
is that it looks good.

Brice

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