From: Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] add free hugepage function
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:23:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141030032324.GC3286@mhcomputing.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141029153212.GB14253@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:32:12AM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> >
> Well, abnormal termination results in abnormal consequences. You expect
> garbage to get left behind of a program crashes, so I wouldn't really worry
> about that too much. If you really wanted to you can register chained handlers
> for SIGSEGV/SIGBUS/etc to catch those conditions, but honestly, that seems like
> overkill. If a program that uses shared resources terminates abnormally, its
> well understood that those shared resources may not get released properly, and
> manual intervention is required to clean them up
>
> Neil
Perhaps true. But also one of the top irritations with POSIX SHMEM. ;)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-30 3:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-29 2:54 linhaifeng
2014-10-29 3:27 ` Qiu, Michael
2014-10-29 3:44 ` Matthew Hall
2014-10-29 5:14 ` Linhaifeng
2014-10-29 5:26 ` Qiu, Michael
2014-10-29 6:49 ` Linhaifeng
2014-10-29 10:26 ` Bruce Richardson
2014-10-29 14:27 ` Neil Horman
2014-10-29 15:22 ` Ramia, Kannan Babu
2014-10-29 15:32 ` Neil Horman
2014-10-29 16:47 ` Bruce Richardson
2014-10-30 3:23 ` Matthew Hall [this message]
2014-10-30 10:18 ` Neil Horman
2014-10-30 14:56 ` Matthew Hall
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