From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
To: Kanoj Sarcar <kanojsarcar@yahoo.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
Christian Bell <christian.bell@qlogic.com>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>,
a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, izike@qumranet.com,
Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
steiner@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, avi@qumranet.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com,
Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
general@lists.openfabrics.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Subject: Re: Demand paging for memory regions
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:48:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802131548.50016.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <866658.37093.qm@web32510.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
On Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:43 pm Kanoj Sarcar wrote:
> Oh ok, yes, I did see the discussion on this; sorry I
> missed it. I do see what notifiers bring to the table
> now (without endorsing it :-)).
>
> An orthogonal question is this: is IB/rdma the only
> "culprit" that elevates page refcounts? Are there no
> other subsystems which do a similar thing?
>
> The example I am thinking about is rawio (Oracle's
> mlock'ed SHM regions are handed to rawio, isn't it?).
> My understanding of how rawio works in Linux is quite
> dated though ...
We're doing something similar in the DRM these days... We need big chunks of
memory to be pinned so that the GPU can operate on them, but when the
operation completes we can allow them to be swappable again. I think with
the current implementation, allocations are always pinned, but we'll
definitely want to change that soon.
Dave?
Jesse
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Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-08 22:06 [patch 0/6] MMU Notifiers V6 Christoph Lameter
2008-02-08 22:06 ` [patch 1/6] mmu_notifier: Core code Christoph Lameter
2008-02-08 22:06 ` [patch 2/6] mmu_notifier: Callbacks to invalidate address ranges Christoph Lameter
2008-02-08 22:06 ` [patch 3/6] mmu_notifier: invalidate_page callbacks Christoph Lameter
2008-02-08 22:06 ` [patch 4/6] mmu_notifier: Skeleton driver for a simple mmu_notifier Christoph Lameter
2008-02-08 22:06 ` [patch 5/6] mmu_notifier: Support for drivers with revers maps (f.e. for XPmem) Christoph Lameter
2008-02-08 22:06 ` [patch 6/6] mmu_rmap_notifier: Skeleton for complex driver that uses its own rmaps Christoph Lameter
2008-02-08 22:23 ` [patch 0/6] MMU Notifiers V6 Andrew Morton
2008-02-08 23:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-08 23:36 ` Robin Holt
2008-02-08 23:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-08 23:43 ` Robin Holt
2008-02-08 23:56 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-09 0:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-09 0:12 ` [ofa-general] " Roland Dreier
2008-02-09 0:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-09 0:21 ` [ofa-general] trying to get of all lists R S
2008-02-09 0:22 ` [ofa-general] Re: [patch 0/6] MMU Notifiers V6 Roland Dreier
2008-02-09 0:36 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-09 1:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-09 1:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-09 1:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-09 2:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-09 12:55 ` Rik van Riel
2008-02-09 21:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-11 22:40 ` Demand paging for memory regions (was Re: MMU Notifiers V6) Roland Dreier
2008-02-12 22:01 ` Steve Wise
2008-02-12 22:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-12 22:41 ` [ofa-general] Re: Demand paging for memory regions Roland Dreier
2008-02-12 23:14 ` Felix Marti
2008-02-13 0:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-14 15:09 ` Steve Wise
2008-02-14 15:53 ` Robin Holt
2008-02-14 16:23 ` Steve Wise
2008-02-14 17:48 ` Caitlin Bestler
2008-02-14 20:47 ` David Singleton
2008-02-15 9:55 ` Robin Holt
2008-02-14 19:39 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-14 20:17 ` Caitlin Bestler
2008-02-14 20:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-14 22:43 ` Caitlin Bestler
2008-02-14 22:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-15 1:26 ` Caitlin Bestler
2008-02-15 2:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-15 18:09 ` Caitlin Bestler
2008-02-15 18:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-15 18:53 ` Caitlin Bestler
2008-02-15 20:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-15 20:14 ` Caitlin Bestler
2008-02-15 22:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-15 23:50 ` Caitlin Bestler
2008-02-12 23:23 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2008-02-13 1:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-13 1:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2008-02-13 1:45 ` Steve Wise
2008-02-13 2:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-13 3:25 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2008-02-13 3:56 ` Patrick Geoffray
2008-02-13 4:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2008-02-13 4:47 ` Patrick Geoffray
2008-02-13 18:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-13 19:51 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2008-02-13 20:36 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-13 4:09 ` Christian Bell
2008-02-13 19:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-13 19:46 ` Christian Bell
2008-02-13 20:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-13 22:44 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2008-02-13 23:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-13 23:43 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2008-02-13 23:48 ` Jesse Barnes [this message]
2008-02-14 0:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-02-14 19:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-13 23:23 ` Pete Wyckoff
2008-02-14 0:01 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2008-02-27 22:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-13 1:55 ` Christian Bell
2008-02-13 2:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-13 0:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-13 12:11 ` Christoph Raisch
2008-02-13 19:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-09 0:12 ` [patch 0/6] MMU Notifiers V6 Andrew Morton
2008-02-09 0:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-02-13 14:31 ` Jack Steiner
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