From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: ira.weiny@intel.com
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com>,
Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>,
Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add gup fast + longterm and use it in HFI1
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 13:40:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190211204049.GB2771@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190211201643.7599-1-ira.weiny@intel.com>
On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 12:16:40PM -0800, ira.weiny@intel.com wrote:
> From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
>
> NOTE: This series depends on my clean up patch to remove the write parameter
> from gup_fast_permitted()[1]
>
> HFI1 uses get_user_pages_fast() due to it performance advantages. Like RDMA,
> HFI1 pages can be held for a significant time. But get_user_pages_fast() does
> not protect against mapping of FS DAX pages.
If HFI1 can use the _fast varient, can't all the general RDMA stuff
use it too?
What is the guidance on when fast vs not fast should be use?
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-11 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-11 20:16 ira.weiny
2019-02-11 20:16 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm/gup: Change "write" parameter to flags ira.weiny
2019-02-11 20:16 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm/gup: Introduce get_user_pages_fast_longterm() ira.weiny
2019-02-11 20:39 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-11 21:13 ` John Hubbard
2019-02-11 21:26 ` Ira Weiny
2019-02-11 21:39 ` John Hubbard
2019-02-11 21:45 ` Dan Williams
2019-02-11 21:52 ` Ira Weiny
2019-02-11 22:01 ` John Hubbard
2019-02-11 22:06 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-11 22:55 ` Dan Williams
2019-02-11 23:04 ` Weiny, Ira
2019-02-11 23:25 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-12 0:08 ` Ira Weiny
2019-02-11 20:16 ` [PATCH 3/3] IB/HFI1: Use new get_user_pages_fast_longterm() ira.weiny
2019-02-11 20:34 ` [PATCH 0/3] Add gup fast + longterm and use it in HFI1 Davidlohr Bueso
2019-02-11 20:47 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-11 21:42 ` Ira Weiny
2019-02-11 22:22 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-11 22:40 ` Weiny, Ira
2019-02-11 22:50 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-11 21:29 ` Ira Weiny
2019-02-11 20:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2019-02-11 21:14 ` Weiny, Ira
2019-02-11 22:23 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-13 23:04 ` [PATCH V2 0/7] Add FOLL_LONGTERM to GUP fast and use it ira.weiny
2019-02-13 23:04 ` [PATCH V2 1/7] mm/gup: Replace get_user_pages_longterm() with FOLL_LONGTERM ira.weiny
2019-02-13 23:04 ` [PATCH V2 2/7] mm/gup: Change write parameter to flags in fast walk ira.weiny
2019-02-13 23:04 ` [PATCH V2 3/7] mm/gup: Change GUP fast to use flags rather than a write 'bool' ira.weiny
2019-02-13 23:11 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-13 23:52 ` Ira Weiny
2019-02-13 23:04 ` [PATCH V2 4/7] mm/gup: Add FOLL_LONGTERM capability to GUP fast ira.weiny
2019-02-13 23:04 ` [PATCH V2 5/7] IB/hfi1: Use the new FOLL_LONGTERM flag to get_user_pages_fast() ira.weiny
2019-02-13 23:04 ` [PATCH V2 6/7] IB/qib: " ira.weiny
2019-02-13 23:04 ` [PATCH V2 7/7] IB/mthca: " ira.weiny
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