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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Albert Esteve <aesteve@redhat.com>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 01/26] fuse: Fix dax truncate/punch_hole fault path
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 19:22:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e1630046-8889-4452-9f8f-07695ba07772@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADSE00+2o5Ma0W6FBLHwpUaKut9Tf74GKLCU-377qgxr08EeoQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 06.02.25 15:59, Albert Esteve wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 08:37:07AM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
>>> And then there are challenges at QEMU level. virtiofsd needs additional
>>> vhost-user commands to implement DAX and these never went upstream in
>>> QEMU. I hope these challenges are sorted at some point of time.
>>
>> Albert Esteve has been working on QEMU support:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20240912145335.129447-1-aesteve@redhat.com/
>>
>> He has a viable solution. I think the remaining issue is how to best
>> structure the memory regions. The reason for slow progress is not
>> because it can't be done, it's probably just because this is a
>> background task.
> 
> It is partially that, indeed. But what has me blocked for now on posting the
> next version is that I was reworking a bit the MMAP strategy.
> Following David comments, I am relying more on RAMBlocks and
> subregions for mmaps. But this turned out more difficult than anticipated.

Yeah, if that turns out to be too painful, we could start with the 
previous approach and work on that later. I also did not expect that to 
become that complicated.

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb



  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-02-06 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-10  6:00 [PATCH v6 00/26] fs/dax: Fix ZONE_DEVICE page reference counts Alistair Popple
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 01/26] fuse: Fix dax truncate/punch_hole fault path Alistair Popple
2025-02-05 13:03   ` Vivek Goyal
2025-02-06  0:10     ` Dan Williams
2025-02-06 12:41       ` Asahi Lina
2025-02-06 19:44         ` Dan Williams
2025-02-06 19:57           ` Asahi Lina
2025-02-06 13:37       ` Vivek Goyal
2025-02-06 14:30         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-02-06 14:59           ` Albert Esteve
2025-02-06 18:10             ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-02-06 18:22             ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2025-02-07 16:16               ` Albert Esteve
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 02/26] fs/dax: Return unmapped busy pages from dax_layout_busy_page_range() Alistair Popple
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 03/26] fs/dax: Don't skip locked entries when scanning entries Alistair Popple
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 04/26] fs/dax: Refactor wait for dax idle page Alistair Popple
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 05/26] fs/dax: Create a common implementation to break DAX layouts Alistair Popple
2025-01-10 16:44   ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-01-13  0:47     ` Alistair Popple
2025-01-13  2:47       ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-01-13 20:11   ` Dan Williams
2025-01-13 23:06   ` Dan Williams
2025-01-14  0:19   ` Dan Williams
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 06/26] fs/dax: Always remove DAX page-cache entries when breaking layouts Alistair Popple
2025-01-13 23:31   ` Dan Williams
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 07/26] fs/dax: Ensure all pages are idle prior to filesystem unmount Alistair Popple
2025-01-10 16:50   ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-01-13  0:57     ` Alistair Popple
2025-01-13  2:49       ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-01-13  5:48         ` Alistair Popple
2025-01-13 16:39           ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-01-13 23:42   ` Dan Williams
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 08/26] fs/dax: Remove PAGE_MAPPING_DAX_SHARED mapping flag Alistair Popple
2025-01-14  0:52   ` Dan Williams
2025-01-15  5:32     ` Alistair Popple
2025-01-15  5:44       ` Dan Williams
2025-01-17  0:54         ` Alistair Popple
2025-01-14 14:47   ` David Hildenbrand
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 09/26] mm/gup: Remove redundant check for PCI P2PDMA page Alistair Popple
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 10/26] mm/mm_init: Move p2pdma page refcount initialisation to p2pdma Alistair Popple
2025-01-14 14:51   ` David Hildenbrand
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 11/26] mm: Allow compound zone device pages Alistair Popple
2025-01-14 14:59   ` David Hildenbrand
2025-01-17  1:05     ` Alistair Popple
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 12/26] mm/memory: Enhance insert_page_into_pte_locked() to create writable mappings Alistair Popple
2025-01-14 15:03   ` David Hildenbrand
     [not found]   ` <6785b90f300d8_20fa29465@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com.notmuch>
2025-01-15  5:36     ` Alistair Popple
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 13/26] mm/memory: Add vmf_insert_page_mkwrite() Alistair Popple
2025-01-14 16:15   ` David Hildenbrand
2025-01-15  6:13     ` Alistair Popple
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 14/26] rmap: Add support for PUD sized mappings to rmap Alistair Popple
2025-01-14  1:21   ` Dan Williams
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 15/26] huge_memory: Add vmf_insert_folio_pud() Alistair Popple
2025-01-14  1:27   ` Dan Williams
2025-01-14 16:22   ` David Hildenbrand
2025-01-15  6:38     ` Alistair Popple
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 16/26] huge_memory: Add vmf_insert_folio_pmd() Alistair Popple
2025-01-14  2:04   ` Dan Williams
2025-01-14 16:40   ` David Hildenbrand
2025-01-14 17:22     ` Dan Williams
2025-01-15  7:05       ` Alistair Popple
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 17/26] memremap: Add is_devdax_page() and is_fsdax_page() helpers Alistair Popple
2025-01-14  2:05   ` Dan Williams
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 18/26] mm/gup: Don't allow FOLL_LONGTERM pinning of FS DAX pages Alistair Popple
2025-01-14  2:16   ` Dan Williams
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 19/26] proc/task_mmu: Mark devdax and fsdax pages as always unpinned Alistair Popple
2025-01-14  2:28   ` Dan Williams
2025-01-14 16:45     ` David Hildenbrand
2025-01-17  1:28       ` Alistair Popple
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 20/26] mm/mlock: Skip ZONE_DEVICE PMDs during mlock Alistair Popple
2025-01-14  2:42   ` Dan Williams
2025-01-17  1:54     ` Alistair Popple
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 21/26] fs/dax: Properly refcount fs dax pages Alistair Popple
2025-01-10 16:54   ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-01-13  3:18     ` Alistair Popple
2025-01-14  3:35   ` Dan Williams
2025-02-07  5:31     ` Alistair Popple
2025-02-07  5:50       ` Dan Williams
2025-02-09 23:35         ` Alistair Popple
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 22/26] device/dax: Properly refcount device dax pages when mapping Alistair Popple
2025-01-14  6:12   ` Dan Williams
2025-02-03 11:29     ` Alistair Popple
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 23/26] mm: Remove pXX_devmap callers Alistair Popple
2025-01-14 18:50   ` Dan Williams
2025-01-15  7:27     ` Alistair Popple
2025-02-04 19:06       ` Dan Williams
2025-02-05  9:57         ` Alistair Popple
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 24/26] mm: Remove devmap related functions and page table bits Alistair Popple
2025-01-11 10:08   ` Huacai Chen
2025-01-14 19:03   ` Dan Williams
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 25/26] Revert "riscv: mm: Add support for ZONE_DEVICE" Alistair Popple
2025-01-14 19:11   ` Dan Williams
2025-01-10  6:00 ` [PATCH v6 26/26] Revert "LoongArch: Add ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP support" Alistair Popple
2025-01-10  7:05 ` [PATCH v6 00/26] fs/dax: Fix ZONE_DEVICE page reference counts Dan Williams
2025-01-11  1:30   ` Andrew Morton
2025-01-11  3:35     ` Dan Williams
2025-01-13  1:05       ` Alistair Popple

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