From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] mm: restore full accuracy in COW page reuse
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:05:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210111160549.GN504133@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45806a5a-65c2-67ce-fc92-dc8c2144d766@nvidia.com>
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 11:26:57PM -0800, John Hubbard wrote:
> So:
>
> FOLL_PIN: would use DMA_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS to increment page refcount.
> These are long term pins for dma.
>
> FOLL_GET: would use GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS to increment page refcount.
> These are not long term pins.
Do we have any places yet that care about the long-term-ness?
The only place long term would matter is if something is waiting for
the page ref count to drop.
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-11 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-10 0:44 [PATCH 0/1] mm: restore full accuracy in COW page reuse Andrea Arcangeli
2021-01-10 0:44 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Andrea Arcangeli
2021-01-10 2:54 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2021-01-11 14:11 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-01-10 0:55 ` [PATCH 0/1] " Linus Torvalds
2021-01-10 1:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-10 1:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-10 3:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2021-01-10 2:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2021-01-10 3:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-10 19:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-11 1:18 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-01-11 7:26 ` John Hubbard
2021-01-11 12:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-01-11 16:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2021-01-11 16:15 ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-11 19:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-11 22:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-12 17:07 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-01-12 23:51 ` Jerome Glisse
2021-01-13 2:16 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-01-13 2:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-13 3:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-13 8:52 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-13 8:57 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-13 12:32 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-01-13 12:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-01-13 19:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-13 23:54 ` Peter Xu
2021-01-11 15:52 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-01-15 8:59 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-15 18:37 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-01-15 19:46 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-15 19:53 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-01-16 3:40 ` John Hubbard
2021-01-16 11:42 ` David Hildenbrand
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