Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761771AbYBZJiV (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:38:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753473AbYBZJiO (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:38:14 -0500 Received: from fwil.voltaire.com ([193.47.165.2]:13348 "EHLO exil.voltaire.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751963AbYBZJiN (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:38:13 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:38:09 +0200 To: Nick Piggin Cc: Robin Holt , steiner@sgi.com, Andrea Arcangeli , Peter Zijlstra , linux-mm@kvack.org, Izik Eidus , Kanoj Sarcar , Roland Dreier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kivity , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com, general@lists.openfabrics.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [patch 5/6] mmu_notifier: Support for drivers with revers maps (f.e. for XPmem) Message-ID: <20080226093809.GF26611@minantech.com> References: <20080215064859.384203497@sgi.com> <200802261711.33213.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <20080226072137.GD26611@minantech.com> <200802261952.42567.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200802261952.42567.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> From: glebn@voltaire.com (Gleb Natapov) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Feb 2008 09:38:10.0325 (UTC) FILETIME=[4CA44450:01C8785B] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1095 Lines: 24 On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:52:41PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Tuesday 26 February 2008 18:21, Gleb Natapov wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 05:11:32PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > You are missing one point here. The MPI specifications that have > > > > been out there for decades do not require the process use a library > > > > for allocating the buffer. I realize that is a horrible shortcoming, > > > > but that is the world we live in. Even if we could change that spec, > > > > > > Can you change the spec? > > > > Not really. It will break all existing codes. > > I meant as in eg. submit changes to MPI-3 MPI spec tries to be backward compatible. And MPI-2 spec is 10 years old, but MPI-1 is still in a wider use. HPC is moving fast in terms of HW technology, but slow in terms of SW. Fortran is still hot there :) -- Gleb. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/