From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>,
iommu@lists.linux.dev, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V1 1/9] mm/gup: repin_folio_unhugely
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 08:40:00 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240926114000.GW9417@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27f8ff84-76cf-40ee-b391-e226218e5600@redhat.com>
On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 01:32:09PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 20.09.24 15:28, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 10:11:38AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> >
> > > > > And repin is really misleading. We are simply adding more pins to an already pinned one ...
> > > >
> > > > Jason suggests a better name in the other thread.
> > >
> > > I would prefer something that simply adds more pins to an already pinned
> > > folio. Much easier to get.
> >
> > Yes, but also nobody should ever want to do that operation, it should
> > always be part of some kind of "splitting" sort of behavior..
>
> I remember patches from Dave Howells that needed that for O_DIRECT handling.
> Never say never ;)
Wouldn't O_DIRECT be the same splitting thing?
> Adding is much more intuitive than splitting ... just like we add references
> when splitting a THP, using folio_ref_add().
Well, sure, it just seems harder to document so people can use it
properly.
Jason
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2024-09-14 13:19 ` Steven Sistare
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