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On Thu, 23 Apr 2015, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote:

> Looking at this whole conversation, all I see is two different views on how to
> present the asymmetric multiprocessing arrangements that have become
> commonplace in today's systems to userspace.  Your model favors performance,
> while CAPI favors simplicity for userspace.

Oww. No performance just simplicity? Really?

The simplification of the memory registration for Infiniband etc is
certainly useful and I hope to see contributions on that going into the
kernel.