From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751207AbdCQImF (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Mar 2017 04:42:05 -0400 Received: from szxga02-in.huawei.com ([45.249.212.188]:3904 "EHLO dggrg02-dlp.huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751065AbdCQImD (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Mar 2017 04:42:03 -0400 Subject: Re: [HMM 00/16] HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management) v18 To: Jerome Glisse , Andrew Morton References: <1489680335-6594-1-git-send-email-jglisse@redhat.com> <20170316134321.c5cf727c21abf89b7e6708a2@linux-foundation.org> <20170316234950.GA5725@redhat.com> CC: , , John Hubbard , Naoya Horiguchi , "David Nellans" From: Bob Liu Message-ID: Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 16:39:28 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170316234950.GA5725@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.142.83.150] X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected X-Mirapoint-Virus-RAPID-Raw: score=unknown(0), refid=str=0001.0A090201.58CBA0C5.00F6,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2014-11-16 11:51:01, dmn=2013-03-21 17:37:32 X-Mirapoint-Loop-Id: 03974c407a48ac56002dfbdc6aa50c33 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2017/3/17 7:49, Jerome Glisse wrote: > On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 01:43:21PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:05:19 -0400 J__r__me Glisse wrote: >> >>> Cliff note: >> >> "Cliff's notes" isn't appropriate for a large feature such as this. >> Where's the long-form description? One which permits readers to fully >> understand the requirements, design, alternative designs, the >> implementation, the interface(s), etc? >> >> Have you ever spoken about HMM at a conference? If so, the supporting >> presentation documents might help here. That's the level of detail >> which should be presented here. > > Longer description of patchset rational, motivation and design choices > were given in the first few posting of the patchset to which i included > a link in my cover letter. Also given that i presented that for last 3 > or 4 years to mm summit and kernel summit i thought that by now peoples > were familiar about the topic and wanted to spare them the long version. > My bad. > > I attach a patch that is a first stab at a Documentation/hmm.txt that > explain the motivation and rational behind HMM. I can probably add a > section about how to use HMM from device driver point of view. > And a simple example program/pseudo-code make use of the device memory would also very useful for person don't have GPU programming experience :) Regards, Bob From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ua0-f199.google.com (mail-ua0-f199.google.com [209.85.217.199]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65F0D6B0038 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 04:39:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-ua0-f199.google.com with SMTP id 72so17886607uaf.7 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 01:39:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dggrg02-dlp.huawei.com ([45.249.212.188]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v2si2444497uae.183.2017.03.17.01.39.38 for (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 17 Mar 2017 01:39:41 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [HMM 00/16] HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management) v18 References: <1489680335-6594-1-git-send-email-jglisse@redhat.com> <20170316134321.c5cf727c21abf89b7e6708a2@linux-foundation.org> <20170316234950.GA5725@redhat.com> From: Bob Liu Message-ID: Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 16:39:28 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170316234950.GA5725@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Jerome Glisse , Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, John Hubbard , Naoya Horiguchi , David Nellans On 2017/3/17 7:49, Jerome Glisse wrote: > On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 01:43:21PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:05:19 -0400 J__r__me Glisse wrote: >> >>> Cliff note: >> >> "Cliff's notes" isn't appropriate for a large feature such as this. >> Where's the long-form description? One which permits readers to fully >> understand the requirements, design, alternative designs, the >> implementation, the interface(s), etc? >> >> Have you ever spoken about HMM at a conference? If so, the supporting >> presentation documents might help here. That's the level of detail >> which should be presented here. > > Longer description of patchset rational, motivation and design choices > were given in the first few posting of the patchset to which i included > a link in my cover letter. Also given that i presented that for last 3 > or 4 years to mm summit and kernel summit i thought that by now peoples > were familiar about the topic and wanted to spare them the long version. > My bad. > > I attach a patch that is a first stab at a Documentation/hmm.txt that > explain the motivation and rational behind HMM. I can probably add a > section about how to use HMM from device driver point of view. > And a simple example program/pseudo-code make use of the device memory would also very useful for person don't have GPU programming experience :) Regards, Bob -- 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