On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:55:26AM -0500, Jes Sorensen wrote: > Is this because the applications will normally allocate their fetchops > in the main thread before spawning off the threads? If the mmap is > done by the thread that will 'own' the individual fetchop this > wouldn't be a problem? Sorry, just trying to understand the nature of > how these applications work, my knowledge of MPI etc. is ehm > ... limited ;)
That is the normal way of doing things. Nearly all large applications have been operating under that assumption for a very long time and changing all those apps to do the mmap after spawning workers is unlikely. Robin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
