From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Cc: yulei zhang <yulei.kernel@gmail.com>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong.eric@gmail.com>,
Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>,
Haiwei Li <lihaiwei.kernel@gmail.com>,
Yulei Zhang <yuleixzhang@tencent.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
Jane Y Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>,
Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/35] Enhance memory utilization with DMEMFS
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 15:25:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4jZ7XTnYd7vLQ18xij7d+80jU0zLs+ykS2frY-LMPS=Nw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <98be093d-c869-941a-6dd9-fb16356f763b@oracle.com>
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 4:00 AM Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> wrote:
[..]
> On 10/10/20 9:15 AM, yulei zhang wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 7:53 PM Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> wrote:
> >> On 10/9/20 12:39 PM, yulei zhang wrote:
> >>> Joao, thanks a lot for the feedback. One more thing needs to mention
> >>> is that dmemfs also support fine-grained
> >>> memory management which makes it more flexible for tenants with
> >>> different requirements.
> >>>
> >> So as DAX when it allows to partition a region (starting 5.10). Meaning you have a region
> >> which you dedicated to userspace. That region can then be partitioning into devices which
> >> give you access to multiple (possibly discontinuous) extents with at a given page
> >> granularity (selectable when you create the device), accessed through mmap().
> >> You can then give that device to a cgroup. Or you can return that memory back to the
> >> kernel (should you run into OOM situation), or you recreate the same mappings across
> >> reboot/kexec.
> >>
> >> I probably need to read your patches again, but can you extend on the 'dmemfs also support
> >> fine-grained memory management' to understand what is the gap that you mention?
> >>
> > sure, dmemfs uses bitmap to track the memory usage in the reserved
> > memory region in
> > a given page size granularity. And for each user the memory can be
> > discrete as well.
> >
> That same functionality of tracking reserved region usage across different users at any
> page granularity is covered the DAX series I mentioned below. The discrete part -- IIUC
> what you meant -- is then reduced using DAX ABI/tools to create a device file vs a filesystem.
Put another way. Linux already has a fine grained memory management
system, the page allocator. Now, with recent device-dax extensions, it
also has a coarse grained memory management system for physical
address-space partitioning and a path for struct-page-less backing for
VMs. What feature gaps remain vs dmemfs, and can those gaps be closed
with incremental improvements to the 2 existing memory-management
systems?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-15 2:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-08 7:53 [PATCH 00/35] Enhance memory utilization with DMEMFS yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:53 ` [PATCH 01/35] fs: introduce dmemfs module yulei.kernel
2020-11-10 20:04 ` Al Viro
2020-11-11 8:53 ` yulei zhang
2020-11-11 23:09 ` Al Viro
2020-11-12 10:03 ` yulei zhang
2020-10-08 7:53 ` [PATCH 02/35] mm: support direct memory reservation yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 20:27 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-10-08 20:34 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-10-08 7:53 ` [PATCH 03/35] dmem: implement dmem memory management yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:53 ` [PATCH 04/35] dmem: let pat recognize dmem yulei.kernel
2020-10-13 7:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-10-13 9:53 ` yulei zhang
2020-10-08 7:53 ` [PATCH 05/35] dmemfs: support mmap yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:53 ` [PATCH 06/35] dmemfs: support truncating inode down yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:53 ` [PATCH 07/35] dmem: trace core functions yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:53 ` [PATCH 08/35] dmem: show some statistic in debugfs yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 20:23 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-10-09 11:49 ` yulei zhang
2020-10-08 7:53 ` [PATCH 09/35] dmemfs: support remote access yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 10/35] dmemfs: introduce max_alloc_try_dpages parameter yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 11/35] mm: export mempolicy interfaces to serve dmem allocator yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 12/35] dmem: introduce mempolicy support yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 13/35] mm, dmem: introduce PFN_DMEM and pfn_t_dmem yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 14/35] mm, dmem: dmem-pmd vs thp-pmd yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 15/35] mm: add pmd_special() check for pmd_trans_huge_lock() yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 16/35] dmemfs: introduce ->split() to dmemfs_vm_ops yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 17/35] mm, dmemfs: support unmap_page_range() for dmemfs pmd yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 18/35] mm: follow_pmd_mask() for dmem huge pmd yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 19/35] mm: gup_huge_pmd() " yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 20/35] mm: support dmem huge pmd for vmf_insert_pfn_pmd() yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 21/35] mm: support dmem huge pmd for follow_pfn() yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 22/35] kvm, x86: Distinguish dmemfs page from mmio page yulei.kernel
2020-10-09 0:58 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-10-09 10:28 ` Joao Martins
2020-10-09 11:42 ` yulei zhang
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 23/35] kvm, x86: introduce VM_DMEM yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 24/35] dmemfs: support hugepage for dmemfs yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 25/35] mm, x86, dmem: fix estimation of reserved page for vaddr_get_pfn() yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 26/35] mm, dmem: introduce pud_special() yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 27/35] mm: add pud_special() to support dmem huge pud yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 28/35] mm, dmemfs: support huge_fault() for dmemfs yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 29/35] mm: add follow_pte_pud() yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 30/35] dmem: introduce dmem_bitmap_alloc() and dmem_bitmap_free() yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 31/35] dmem: introduce mce handler yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 32/35] mm, dmemfs: register and handle the dmem mce yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 33/35] kvm, x86: temporary disable record_steal_time for dmem yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 34/35] dmem: add dmem unit tests yulei.kernel
2020-10-08 7:54 ` [PATCH 35/35] Add documentation for dmemfs yulei.kernel
2020-10-09 1:26 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-10-08 19:01 ` [PATCH 00/35] Enhance memory utilization with DMEMFS Joao Martins
2020-10-09 11:39 ` yulei zhang
2020-10-09 11:53 ` Joao Martins
2020-10-10 8:15 ` yulei zhang
2020-10-12 10:59 ` Joao Martins
2020-10-14 22:25 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2020-10-19 13:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-10-19 19:03 ` Joao Martins
2020-10-20 15:22 ` yulei zhang
2020-10-12 11:57 ` Zengtao (B)
2020-10-13 2:45 ` yulei zhang
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='CAPcyv4jZ7XTnYd7vLQ18xij7d+80jU0zLs+ykS2frY-LMPS=Nw@mail.gmail.com' \
--to=dan.j.williams@intel.com \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=jane.chu@oracle.com \
--cc=joao.m.martins@oracle.com \
--cc=kernellwp@gmail.com \
--cc=konrad.wilk@oracle.com \
--cc=kvm@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=lihaiwei.kernel@gmail.com \
--cc=linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mike.kravetz@oracle.com \
--cc=naoya.horiguchi@nec.com \
--cc=pbonzini@redhat.com \
--cc=songmuchun@bytedance.com \
--cc=viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk \
--cc=willy@infradead.org \
--cc=xiaoguangrong.eric@gmail.com \
--cc=yulei.kernel@gmail.com \
--cc=yuleixzhang@tencent.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).