From: Brice Goglin <brice.goglin@gmail.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com, dave.jiang@intel.com,
zwisler@kernel.org, vishal.l.verma@intel.com,
thomas.lendacky@amd.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
mhocko@suse.com, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
ying.huang@intel.com, fengguang.wu@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Allow persistent memory to be used like normal RAM
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 10:22:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ffeb6225-6d5c-099e-3158-4711c879ec23@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181022201317.8558C1D8@viggo.jf.intel.com>
Le 22/10/2018 à 22:13, Dave Hansen a écrit :
> Persistent memory is cool. But, currently, you have to rewrite
> your applications to use it. Wouldn't it be cool if you could
> just have it show up in your system like normal RAM and get to
> it like a slow blob of memory? Well... have I got the patch
> series for you!
>
> This series adds a new "driver" to which pmem devices can be
> attached. Once attached, the memory "owned" by the device is
> hot-added to the kernel and managed like any other memory. On
> systems with an HMAT (a new ACPI table), each socket (roughly)
> will have a separate NUMA node for its persistent memory so
> this newly-added memory can be selected by its unique NUMA
> node.
Hello Dave
What happens on systems without an HMAT? Does this new memory get merged
into existing NUMA nodes?
Also, do you plan to have a way for applications to find out which NUMA
nodes are "real DRAM" while others are "pmem-backed"? (something like a
new attribute in /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/) Or should we use HMAT
performance attributes for this?
Brice
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-03 9:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-22 20:13 Dave Hansen
2018-10-22 20:13 ` [PATCH 1/9] mm/resource: return real error codes from walk failures Dave Hansen
2018-10-22 20:13 ` [PATCH 2/9] dax: kernel memory driver for mm ownership of DAX Dave Hansen
2018-10-23 1:56 ` Randy Dunlap
2018-10-22 20:13 ` [PATCH 3/9] dax: add more kmem device infrastructure Dave Hansen
2018-10-22 20:13 ` [PATCH 4/9] dax/kmem: allow PMEM devices to bind to KMEM driver Dave Hansen
2018-10-22 20:13 ` [PATCH 5/9] dax/kmem: add more nd dax kmem infrastructure Dave Hansen
2018-10-22 20:13 ` [PATCH 6/9] mm/memory-hotplug: allow memory resources to be children Dave Hansen
2018-10-22 20:13 ` [PATCH 7/9] dax/kmem: actually perform memory hotplug Dave Hansen
2018-10-22 20:13 ` [PATCH 8/9] dax/kmem: let walk_system_ram_range() search child resources Dave Hansen
2018-10-22 20:13 ` [PATCH 9/9] dax/kmem: actually enable the code in Makefile Dave Hansen
2018-10-23 1:05 ` [PATCH 0/9] Allow persistent memory to be used like normal RAM Dan Williams
2018-10-23 1:11 ` Dan Williams
2018-10-26 8:03 ` Xishi Qiu
2018-10-26 13:58 ` Dave Hansen
2018-10-27 4:45 ` Dan Williams
2018-10-23 18:12 ` Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
2018-10-23 18:16 ` Dave Hansen
2018-10-23 18:58 ` Dan Williams
2018-10-26 5:42 ` Xishi Qiu
2018-10-26 9:03 ` Fengguang Wu
2018-10-27 11:00 ` Fengguang Wu
2018-10-31 5:11 ` Yang Shi
2018-12-03 9:22 ` Brice Goglin [this message]
2018-12-03 16:56 ` Dave Hansen
2018-12-03 17:16 ` Dan Williams
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