From: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>, Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>,
Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/9] memremap: add ZONE_DEVICE support for compound pages
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 17:18:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e9e24d05-79e7-275a-530d-fc3b5041845d@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4gsVWi8j=aZj3n1-O=39gq2jULcpWgiY22U6hpGTpcGzA@mail.gmail.com>
On 2/23/21 4:50 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 7:46 AM Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> wrote:
>> On 2/22/21 8:37 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 3:24 AM Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> wrote:
>>>> On 2/20/21 1:43 AM, Dan Williams wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 9:59 PM John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 12/8/20 9:28 AM, Joao Martins wrote:
[...]
>>> Don't get me wrong the
>>> capability is still needed for filesystem-dax, but the distinction is
>>> that vmemmap_populate_compound_pages() need never worry about an
>>> altmap.
>>>
>> IMO there's not much added complexity strictly speaking about altmap. We still use the
>> same vmemmap_{pmd,pte,pgd}_populate helpers which just pass an altmap. So whatever it is
>> being maintained for fsdax or other altmap consumers (e.g. we seem to be working towards
>> hotplug making use of it) we are using it in the exact same way.
>>
>> The complexity of the future vmemmap_populate_compound_pages() has more to do with reusing
>> vmemmap blocks allocated in previous vmemmap pages, and preserving that across section
>> onlining (for 1G pages).
>
> True, I'm less worried about the complexity as much as
> opportunistically converting configurations to RAM backed pages. It's
> already the case that poison handling is page mapping size aligned for
> device-dax, and filesystem-dax needs to stick with non-compound-pages
> for the foreseeable future.
>
Hmm, I was sort off wondering that fsdax could move to compound pages too as
opposed to base pages, albeit not necessarily using the vmemmap page reuse
as it splits pages IIUC.
> Ok, let's try to keep altmap in vmemmap_populate_compound_pages() and
> see how it looks.
>
OK, will do.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-23 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-08 17:28 [PATCH RFC 0/9] mm, sparse-vmemmap: Introduce compound pagemaps Joao Martins
2020-12-08 17:28 ` [PATCH RFC 1/9] memremap: add ZONE_DEVICE support for compound pages Joao Martins
2020-12-09 5:59 ` John Hubbard
2020-12-09 6:33 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-09 13:12 ` Joao Martins
2021-02-20 1:43 ` Dan Williams
2021-02-22 11:24 ` Joao Martins
2021-02-22 20:37 ` Dan Williams
2021-02-23 15:46 ` Joao Martins
2021-02-23 16:50 ` Dan Williams
2021-02-23 17:18 ` Joao Martins [this message]
2021-02-23 18:18 ` Dan Williams
2021-03-10 18:12 ` Joao Martins
2021-03-12 5:54 ` Dan Williams
2021-02-20 1:24 ` Dan Williams
2021-02-22 11:09 ` Joao Martins
2020-12-08 17:28 ` [PATCH RFC 2/9] sparse-vmemmap: Consolidate arguments in vmemmap section populate Joao Martins
2020-12-09 6:16 ` John Hubbard
2020-12-09 13:51 ` Joao Martins
2021-02-20 1:49 ` Dan Williams
2021-02-22 11:26 ` Joao Martins
2020-12-08 17:28 ` [PATCH RFC 3/9] sparse-vmemmap: Reuse vmemmap areas for a given mhp_params::align Joao Martins
2020-12-08 17:38 ` Joao Martins
2020-12-08 17:28 ` [PATCH RFC 3/9] sparse-vmemmap: Reuse vmemmap areas for a given page size Joao Martins
2021-02-20 3:34 ` Dan Williams
2021-02-22 11:42 ` Joao Martins
2021-02-22 22:40 ` Dan Williams
2021-02-23 15:46 ` Joao Martins
2020-12-08 17:28 ` [PATCH RFC 4/9] mm/page_alloc: Reuse tail struct pages for compound pagemaps Joao Martins
2021-02-20 6:17 ` Dan Williams
2021-02-22 12:01 ` Joao Martins
2020-12-08 17:28 ` [PATCH RFC 5/9] device-dax: Compound pagemap support Joao Martins
2020-12-08 17:28 ` [PATCH RFC 6/9] mm/gup: Grab head page refcount once for group of subpages Joao Martins
2020-12-08 19:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-12-09 11:05 ` Joao Martins
2020-12-09 15:15 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-12-09 16:02 ` Joao Martins
2020-12-09 16:24 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-12-09 17:27 ` Joao Martins
2020-12-09 18:14 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-09 19:08 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-12-10 15:43 ` Joao Martins
2020-12-09 4:40 ` John Hubbard
2020-12-09 13:44 ` Joao Martins
2020-12-08 17:28 ` [PATCH RFC 7/9] mm/gup: Decrement head page " Joao Martins
2020-12-08 19:34 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-12-09 5:06 ` John Hubbard
2020-12-09 13:43 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-12-09 12:17 ` Joao Martins
2020-12-17 19:05 ` Joao Martins
2020-12-17 20:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-12-17 22:34 ` Joao Martins
2020-12-18 14:25 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-12-19 2:06 ` John Hubbard
2020-12-19 13:10 ` Joao Martins
2020-12-08 17:29 ` [PATCH RFC 8/9] RDMA/umem: batch page unpin in __ib_mem_release() Joao Martins
2020-12-08 19:29 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-12-09 10:59 ` Joao Martins
2020-12-19 13:15 ` Joao Martins
2020-12-09 5:18 ` John Hubbard
2020-12-08 17:29 ` [PATCH RFC 9/9] mm: Add follow_devmap_page() for devdax vmas Joao Martins
2020-12-08 19:57 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-12-09 8:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-12-09 11:19 ` Joao Martins
2020-12-09 5:23 ` John Hubbard
2020-12-09 9:38 ` [PATCH RFC 0/9] mm, sparse-vmemmap: Introduce compound pagemaps David Hildenbrand
2020-12-09 9:52 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2021-02-20 1:18 ` Dan Williams
2021-02-22 11:06 ` Joao Martins
2021-02-22 14:32 ` Joao Martins
2021-02-23 16:28 ` Joao Martins
2021-02-23 16:44 ` Dan Williams
2021-02-23 17:15 ` Joao Martins
2021-02-23 18:15 ` Dan Williams
2021-02-23 18:54 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-02-23 22:48 ` Dan Williams
2021-02-23 23:07 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-02-24 0:14 ` Dan Williams
2021-02-24 1:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-02-24 1:32 ` Dan Williams
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