From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <479716AD.5070708@qumranet.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:27:57 +0200 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] export notifier #1 References: <20080116124256.44033d48@bree.surriel.com> <478E4356.7030303@qumranet.com> <20080117162302.GI7170@v2.random> <478F9C9C.7070500@qumranet.com> <20080117193252.GC24131@v2.random> <20080121125204.GJ6970@v2.random> <4795F9D2.1050503@qumranet.com> <20080122144332.GE7331@v2.random> <20080122200858.GB15848@v2.random> <20080122223139.GD15848@v2.random> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Izik Eidus , Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , steiner@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com, holt@sgi.com, Hugh Dickins List-ID: Christoph Lameter wrote: > Ahhh. Good to hear. But we will still end in a situation where only > the remote ptes point to the page. Maybe the remote instance will dirty > the page at that point? > > When the spte is dropped, its dirty bit is transferred to the page. > >> sharing code, and for you missing a single notifier means memory >> corruption because you don't bump the page count to represent the >> external reference). >> > > The approach with the export notifier is page based not based on the > mm_struct. We only need a single page count for a page that is exported to > a number of remote instances of linux. The page count is dropped when all > the remote instances have unmapped the page. > That won't work for kvm. If we have a hundred virtual machines, that means 99 no-op notifications. Also, our rmap key for finding the spte is keyed on (mm, va). I imagine most RDMA cards are similar. > > >>> @@ -966,6 +973,9 @@ int try_to_unmap(struct page *page, int >>> >>> BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page)); >>> >>> + if (unlikely(PageExported(page))) >>> + export_notifier(invalidate_page, page); >>> + >>> >> Passing the page here will complicate things especially for shared >> pages across different VM that are already working in KVM. For non >> > > How? > > >> shared pages we could cache the userland mapping address in >> page->private but it's a kludge only working for non-shared >> pages. Walking twice the anon_vma lists when only a single walk is >> > > There is only the need to walk twice for pages that are marked Exported. > And the double walk is only necessary if the exporter does not have its > own rmap. The cross partition thing that we are doing has such an rmap and > its a matter of walking the exporters rmap to clear out the external > references and then we walk the local rmaps. All once. > The problem is that external mmus need a reverse mapping structure to locate their ptes. We can't expand struct page so we need to base it on mm + va. > >> Besides the pinned pages ram leak by having the zero locking window >> above I'm curious how you are going to take care of the finegrined >> aging that I'm doing with the accessed bit set by hardware in the spte >> > > I think I explained that above. Remote users effectively are forbidden to > establish new references to the page by the clearing of the exported bit. > > Can they wait on that bit? -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org