linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/6] mmu_notifier: Callbacks to invalidate address ranges

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Message-ID: <20080228011020.GG8091@v2.random>
Date:	Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:10:20 +0100
From:	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...ranet.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Robin Holt <holt@....com>, Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>,
	Izik Eidus <izike@...ranet.com>,
	kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	general@...ts.openfabrics.org,
	Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	Kanoj Sarcar <kanojsarcar@...oo.com>, steiner@....com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	daniel.blueman@...drics.com
Subject: Re: [patch 2/6] mmu_notifier: Callbacks to invalidate address
	ranges

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 05:03:21PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> RDMA works across a network and I would assume that it needs confirmation 
> that a connection has been torn down before pages can be unmapped.

Depends on the latency of the network, for example with page pinning
it can even try to reduce the wait time, by tearing down the mapping
in range_begin and spin waiting the ack only later in range_end.
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