[petsc-dev] Adding support memkind allocators in PETSc

Barry Smith bsmith at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Jun 3 21:43:48 CDT 2015


  Jeff,

   Ahh, from this page, it is definitively clear that the Intel people have their heads totally up their asses 

formatted source code with astyle --style=linux --indent=spaces=4 -y -S

when everyone knows that any indent that is not 2 characters is totally insane :-)

  Barry


> On Jun 3, 2015, at 9:37 PM, Jeff Hammond <jeff.science at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> but it screws up memkind's partitioning of the heap (it won't be aware
>>> that the pages have been moved).
>> 
>> Then memkind is stupid or the kernel isn't exposing the correct
>> information to memkind.  Tell them to not be lazy and do it right.
> 
> The beauty of git/github is one can make branches to try out anything
> they want even if Jed thinks that he knows better than Intel how to
> write system software for Intel's hardware.
> 
> This link is equivalent to pushing the "Fork" button on Github's
> memkind page: https://github.com/memkind/memkind#fork-destination-box.
> I'm sure that the memkind developers would be willing to review your
> pull request once you've implemented memkind_move_pages().
> 
> Jeff
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Hammond
> jeff.science at gmail.com
> http://jeffhammond.github.io/




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