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SubjectRe: [LSF/MM TOPIC] userfaultfd
On 2015-01-14 18:01, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 7) distributed shared memory that could allow simultaneous mapping of
> regions marked readonly and collapse them on the first exclusive
> write. I'm mentioning it as a corollary, because I'm not aware of
> anybody who is planning to use it that way (still I'd like that
> this will be possible too just in case it finds its way later on).
While I haven't actually written any code for it yet, I've been thinking
about the possibility to use this to allow qemu to do distributed
emulation of a NUMA system (ie, you could run qemu on a Beowulf cluster
and make it look to the guest OS like it's running on a big NUMA system,
essentially SSI clustering for people who don't have a multi-million
dollar budget). Having userfaultd to work with would make this
exponentially easier to implement.

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