Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] get_user_pages() for PCI BAR Memory

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>]

On Fri 07-02-20 12:42:01, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 04:13:51PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 11:46:20AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >  Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
> > > >  Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
> > > >  Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
> > > >  Stephen Bates <sbates@raithlin.com>
> > > >  Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
> > > >  Ira Weiny <iweiny@intel.com>
> > > >  Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> > > >  John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
> > > >  Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
> > > >  Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> > > >  Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>
> > > 
> > > That's a long list, and you're missing 
> > > 
> > > "Thomas Hellström (VMware)" <thomas_os@shipmail.org>
> > > Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
> > 
> > Great, thanks, I'm not really aware of what the related work is
> > though?
> 
> Thomas has been working on huge pages for graphics BARs, so that's involved
> touching 'special' (ie pageless) VMAs:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200205125353.2760-1-thomas_os@shipmail.org/
> 
> Joao has been working on removing the need for KVM hosts to have struct pages
> that cover the memory of their guests:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200110190313.17144-1-joao.m.martins@oracle.com/

I do not see those people requesting attendance. Please note that the
deadline is approaching. Hint hint...

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs