--On Thursday, October 24, 2002 07:22:56 -0700 "Martin J. Bligh"
<mbligh@aracnet.com> wrote:
>> Another thought, how does this play with NUMA systems? I don't have the
>> problem, but presumably there are implications.
>
> At some point we'll probably only want one shared set per node.
> Gets tricky when you migrate processes across nodes though - will
> need more thought
Page tables can only be shared when they're pointing to the same data pages
anyway, so I think it's just part of the larger problem of node-local
memory.
Dave McCracken
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