Re: Quick question about hyper-threading (also some NUMA stuff)

From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Antonio Vargas <wind@cocodriloo.com>
Cc: Timothy Miller <tmiller10@cfl.rr.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nicoya@apia.dhs.org
Subject: Re: Quick question about hyper-threading (also some NUMA stuff)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:24:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14860000.1050337484@[10.10.2.4]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030414155748.GD14552@wind.cocodriloo.com>

>> > Perhaps it would be good to un-COW pages:
>> > 
>> > 1. fork process
>> > 2. if current node is not loaded, continue as usual
>> > 3. if current node is loaded:
>> > 3a. pick unloaded node
>> > 4b. don't do COW for data pages, but simply copy them to node-local memory
>> > 
>> > This way, read-write sharings would be replicated for each node.
>> 
>> Sharing read-write stuff is a total nightmare - you have to deal with
>> all the sync stuff, and invalidation. In real-life scenarios, I really
>> doubt the complexity is worth it - read-only is quite complex enough,
>> thanks ;-) 
> 
> I mean MAP_PRIVATE stuff, not MAP_SHARED.

OK, unless I misunderstand you, I think that happens naturally for that
kind of thing - when we do the COW split, we'll get a node-local page
by default (unless the local node is out of memory).

M.