From: "Michal Suchánek" <msuchanek@suse.de>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>,
alistair@popple.id.au,
linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] libnvdimm/nvdimm/flush: Allow architecture to override the flush barrier
Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 11:31:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200522093127.GY25173@kitsune.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.02.2005211442290.22894@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com>
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 02:52:30PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 21 May 2020, Dan Williams wrote:
>
> > On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 10:03 AM Aneesh Kumar K.V
> > <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Moving on to the patch itself--Aneesh, have you audited other persistent
> > > > memory users in the kernel? For example, drivers/md/dm-writecache.c does
> > > > this:
> > > >
> > > > static void writecache_commit_flushed(struct dm_writecache *wc, bool wait_for_ios)
> > > > {
> > > > if (WC_MODE_PMEM(wc))
> > > > wmb(); <==========
> > > > else
> > > > ssd_commit_flushed(wc, wait_for_ios);
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > I believe you'll need to make modifications there.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Correct. Thanks for catching that.
> > >
> > >
> > > I don't understand dm much, wondering how this will work with
> > > non-synchronous DAX device?
> >
> > That's a good point. DM-writecache needs to be cognizant of things
> > like virtio-pmem that violate the rule that persisent memory writes
> > can be flushed by CPU functions rather than calling back into the
> > driver. It seems we need to always make the flush case a dax_operation
> > callback to account for this.
>
> dm-writecache is normally sitting on the top of dm-linear, so it would
> need to pass the wmb() call through the dm core and dm-linear target ...
> that would slow it down ... I remember that you already did it this way
> some times ago and then removed it.
>
> What's the exact problem with POWER? Could the POWER system have two types
> of persistent memory that need two different ways of flushing?
As far as I understand the discussion so far
- on POWER $oldhardware uses $oldinstruction to ensure pmem consistency
- on POWER $newhardware uses $newinstruction to ensure pmem consistency
(compatible with $oldinstruction on $oldhardware)
- on some platforms instead of barrier instruction a callback into the
driver is issued to ensure consistency
None of this is reflected by the dm driver.
Thanks
Michal
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-13 3:47 [PATCH v2 1/5] powerpc/pmem: Add new instructions for persistent storage and sync Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-05-13 3:47 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] powerpc/pmem: Add flush routines using new pmem store and sync instruction Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-05-13 3:47 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] libnvdimm/nvdimm/flush: Allow architecture to override the flush barrier Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-05-13 16:14 ` Dan Williams
2020-05-19 5:30 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-05-19 7:09 ` Dan Williams
2020-05-19 13:52 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-05-19 18:59 ` Dan Williams
2020-05-20 18:43 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-05-21 14:38 ` Jeff Moyer
2020-05-21 17:02 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-05-21 18:25 ` Dan Williams
2020-05-21 18:52 ` Mikulas Patocka
2020-05-22 9:31 ` Michal Suchánek [this message]
2020-05-22 10:08 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-05-22 13:01 ` Mikulas Patocka
2020-06-26 10:20 ` Michal Suchánek
2020-05-21 18:34 ` Dan Williams
2020-05-13 3:47 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] powerpc/pmem/of_pmem: Update of_pmem to use the new barrier instruction Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-05-13 6:44 ` kbuild test robot
2020-05-13 3:47 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] powerpc/pmem: Avoid the barrier in flush routines Aneesh Kumar K.V
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