From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>, Jerome Glisse <j.glisse@gmail.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
jglisse@redhat.com, mgorman@suse.de, aarcange@redhat.com,
airlied@redhat.com, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
Cameron Buschardt <cabuschardt@nvidia.com>,
Mark Hairgrove <mhairgrove@nvidia.com>,
Geoffrey Gerfin <ggerfin@nvidia.com>,
John McKenna <jmckenna@nvidia.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Interacting with coherent memory on external devices
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:35:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <553E8F75.5060502@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1504271411060.30615@gentwo.org>
On 04/27/2015 03:26 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> DAX is about directly accessing memory. It is made for the purpose of
> serving as a block device for a filesystem right now but it can easily be
> used as a way to map any external memory into a processes space using the
> abstraction of a block device. But then you can do that with any device
> driver using VM_PFNMAP or VM_MIXEDMAP. Maybe we better use that term
> instead. Guess I have repeated myself 6 times or so now? I am stopping
> with this one.
Yeah, please stop.
If after 6 times you have still not grasped that having the
application manage which memory goes onto the device and
which goes in RAM is the exact opposite of the use model
that Paul and Jerome are trying to enable (transparent moving
around of memory, by eg. GPU calculation libraries), you are
clearly not paying enough attention.
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Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-21 21:44 Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-21 23:46 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-22 0:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-22 12:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-21 23:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-22 0:05 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-22 0:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-22 1:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-22 13:35 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-22 13:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-22 16:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-22 17:07 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-22 18:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-22 18:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-23 14:12 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-23 19:24 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-24 14:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-24 14:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-24 15:53 ` Rik van Riel
2015-04-23 2:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-23 14:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-23 15:42 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-24 14:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-23 22:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-23 2:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-23 14:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-23 15:25 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-04-23 19:33 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-24 14:12 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-24 14:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-24 15:09 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-25 11:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-24 15:52 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-23 22:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-24 14:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-23 16:04 ` Rik van Riel
2015-04-22 0:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-22 0:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-22 1:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-22 15:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-22 16:31 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-22 17:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-22 19:07 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-23 2:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-23 14:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-23 16:11 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-24 14:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-24 15:08 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-24 16:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-24 16:43 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-24 16:58 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-24 17:19 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-24 18:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-24 19:29 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-24 20:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-24 20:32 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-25 11:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-27 15:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-27 15:47 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-27 16:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-27 16:29 ` Rik van Riel
2015-04-27 16:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-27 23:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-05-13 14:10 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-05-13 23:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-05-14 7:39 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-05-14 7:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-05-28 18:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-27 16:43 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-27 16:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-27 17:21 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-27 19:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-27 19:35 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2015-04-27 20:52 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-28 14:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-28 17:20 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-27 16:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-27 16:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-24 23:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-23 18:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-24 14:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-24 14:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-24 15:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-24 16:06 ` Rik van Riel
2015-04-25 11:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-24 16:00 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-24 16:08 ` Rik van Riel
2015-04-23 17:28 ` Rik van Riel
2015-04-23 2:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-23 14:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-23 16:22 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-24 18:41 ` Oded Gabbay
2015-04-23 19:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-22 15:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-25 2:32 ` Rik van Riel
2015-04-25 3:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-25 11:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
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