From: chetan L <loke.chetan@gmail.com>
To: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>, Bob Liu <liubo95@huawei.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
David Nellans <dnellans@nvidia.com>,
Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com, linux-accelerators@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Cache coherent device memory (CDM) with HMM v5
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 19:29:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAsGZS43n2_f9sQXGH5Ap=eEx2f099CDwHC0aTTgOEbw7Dc=zg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAsGZS5eoSK=Hd5av2bkw=chPGyfOYYNbrdizzCqq2gZ7+XH_g@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 7:23 PM, chetan L <loke.chetan@gmail.com> wrote:
> CC'ing : linux-accelerators@vger.kernel.org
>
Sorry, CC'ing the correct list this time: linux-accelerators@lists.ozlabs.org
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 6:44 PM, Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 06:10:08PM -0800, chet l wrote:
>>> >> You may think it as a CCIX device or CAPI device.
>>> >> The requirement is eliminate any extra copy.
>>> >> A typical usecase/requirement is malloc() and madvise() allocate from
>>> >> device memory, then CPU write data to device memory directly and
>>> >> trigger device to read the data/do calculation.
>>> >
>>> > I suggest you rely on the device driver userspace API to do a migration after malloc
>>> > then. Something like:
>>> > ptr = malloc(size);
>>> > my_device_migrate(ptr, size);
>>> >
>>> > Which would call an ioctl of the device driver which itself would migrate memory or
>>> > allocate device memory for the range if pointer return by malloc is not yet back by
>>> > any pages.
>>> >
>>>
>>> So for CCIX, I don't think there is going to be an inline device
>>> driver that would allocate any memory for you. The expansion memory
>>> will become part of the system memory as part of the boot process. So,
>>> if the host DDR is 256GB and the CCIX expansion memory is 4GB, the
>>> total system mem will be 260GB.
>>>
>>> Assume that the 'mm' is taught to mark/anoint the ZONE_DEVICE(or
>>> ZONE_XXX) range from 256 to 260 GB. Then, for kmalloc it(mm) won't use
>>> the ZONE_DEV range. But for a malloc, it will/can use that range.
>>
>> HMM zone device memory would work with that, you just need to teach the
>> platform to identify this memory zone and not hotplug it. Again you
>> should rely on specific device driver API to allocate this memory.
>>
>
> @Jerome - a new linux-accelerator's list has just been created. I have
> CC'd that list since we have overlapping interests w.r.t CCIX.
>
> I cannot comment on surprise add/remove as of now ... will cross the
> bridge later.
>
>
>>> > There has been several discussions already about madvise/mbind/set_mempolicy/
>>> > move_pages and at this time i don't think we want to add or change any of them to
>>> > understand device memory. My personal opinion is that we first need to have enough
>>>
>>> We will visit these APIs when we are more closer to building exotic
>>> CCIX devices. And the plan is to present/express the CCIX proximity
>>> attributes just like a NUMA node-proximity attribute today. That way
>>> there would be minimal disruptions to the existing OS ecosystem.
>>
>> NUMA have been rejected previously see CDM/CAPI threads. So i don't see
>> it being accepted for CCIX either. My belief is that we want to hide this
>> inside device driver and only once we see multiple devices all doing the
>> same kind of thing we should move toward building something generic that
>> catter to CCIX devices.
>
>
> Thanks for pointing out the NUMA thingy. I will visit the CDM/CAPI
> threads to understand what was discussed before commenting further.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-16 3:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-13 21:15 [PATCH 0/6] Cache coherent device memory (CDM) with HMM v5 Jérôme Glisse
2017-07-13 21:15 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm/zone-device: rename DEVICE_PUBLIC to DEVICE_HOST Jérôme Glisse
2017-07-17 9:09 ` Balbir Singh
2017-07-13 21:15 ` [PATCH 2/6] mm/device-public-memory: device memory cache coherent with CPU v4 Jérôme Glisse
2017-07-13 23:01 ` Balbir Singh
2017-07-13 21:15 ` [PATCH 3/6] mm/hmm: add new helper to hotplug CDM memory region v3 Jérôme Glisse
2017-07-13 21:15 ` [PATCH 4/6] mm/memcontrol: allow to uncharge page without using page->lru field Jérôme Glisse
2017-07-17 9:10 ` Balbir Singh
2017-07-13 21:15 ` [PATCH 5/6] mm/memcontrol: support MEMORY_DEVICE_PRIVATE and MEMORY_DEVICE_PUBLIC v3 Jérôme Glisse
2017-07-17 9:15 ` Balbir Singh
2017-07-13 21:15 ` [PATCH 6/6] mm/hmm: documents how device memory is accounted in rss and memcg Jérôme Glisse
2017-07-14 13:26 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-18 3:26 ` [PATCH 0/6] Cache coherent device memory (CDM) with HMM v5 Bob Liu
2017-07-18 15:38 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-07-19 1:46 ` Bob Liu
2017-07-19 2:25 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-07-19 9:09 ` Bob Liu
2017-07-20 15:03 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-07-21 1:15 ` Bob Liu
2017-07-21 1:41 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-07-21 2:10 ` Bob Liu
2017-07-21 12:01 ` Bob Liu
2017-07-21 15:21 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-07-21 3:48 ` Dan Williams
2017-07-21 15:22 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-09-05 19:36 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-09-09 23:22 ` Bob Liu
2017-09-11 23:36 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-09-12 1:02 ` Bob Liu
2017-09-12 16:17 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-09-26 9:56 ` Bob Liu
2017-09-26 16:16 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-09-30 2:57 ` Bob Liu
2017-09-30 22:49 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-10-11 13:15 ` Bob Liu
2017-10-12 15:37 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-11-16 2:10 ` chet l
2017-11-16 2:44 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-11-16 3:23 ` chetan L
2017-11-16 3:29 ` chetan L [this message]
2017-11-16 21:29 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-11-16 22:41 ` chetan L
2017-11-16 23:11 ` Jerome Glisse
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