[petsc-dev] Using multiple mallocs with PETSc

[Jeff Hammond]

>
>
> I started to play with memkind last summer. At that time, there were
> plenty of sayings online like this:
> "the *hbwmalloc* interface is stable but *memkind* interface is only
> partially stable."
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>
If you want the most stable interface, just use libnuma.  It took me less
than a day to reimplement hbwmalloc.h on top of libnuma and dlmalloc (
https://github.com/jeffhammond/myhbwmalloc).  Note that myhbwmalloc was an
education exercise, not software that I actually think anyone should use.
It is intentionally brittle (fast or fail - nothing in between).

One consequence of using libnuma to manage MCDRAM is that one can call
numa_move_pages, which Jed has asserted is the single most important
function call in the history of memory management ;-)

Jeff


> Perhaps I should try memkind calls since they may become much better.
>
> Hong (Mr.)
>

-- 
Jeff Hammond
jeff.science at gmail.com
http://jeffhammond.github.io/
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