From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: "Xiong, Jianxin" <jianxin.xiong@intel.com>
Cc: "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>,
Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
"Vetter, Daniel" <daniel.vetter@intel.com>,
Christian Koenig <christian.koenig@amd.com>,
"dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org"
<dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/3] RDMA: add dma-buf support
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 16:17:00 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200630191700.GL25301@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MW3PR11MB45553FA6D144BF1053571D98E56F0@MW3PR11MB4555.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>
On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 06:46:17PM +0000, Xiong, Jianxin wrote:
> > From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 10:35 AM
> > To: Xiong, Jianxin <jianxin.xiong@intel.com>
> > Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org; Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>; Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>; Leon Romanovsky
> > <leon@kernel.org>; Vetter, Daniel <daniel.vetter@intel.com>; Christian Koenig <christian.koenig@amd.com>
> > Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/3] RDMA: add dma-buf support
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 05:21:33PM +0000, Xiong, Jianxin wrote:
> > > > > Heterogeneous Memory Management (HMM) utilizes
> > > > > mmu_interval_notifier and ZONE_DEVICE to support shared virtual
> > > > > address space and page migration between system memory and device
> > > > > memory. HMM doesn't support pinning device memory because pages
> > > > > located on device must be able to migrate to system memory when
> > > > > accessed by CPU. Peer-to-peer access is possible if the peer can
> > > > > handle page fault. For RDMA, that means the NIC must support on-demand paging.
> > > >
> > > > peer-peer access is currently not possible with hmm_range_fault().
> > >
> > > Currently hmm_range_fault() always sets the cpu access flag and device
> > > private pages are migrated to the system RAM in the fault handler.
> > > However, it's possible to have a modified code flow to keep the device
> > > private page info for use with peer to peer access.
> >
> > Sort of, but only within the same device, RDMA or anything else generic can't reach inside a DEVICE_PRIVATE and extract anything useful.
>
> But pfn is supposed to be all that is needed.
Needed for what? The PFN of the DEVICE_PRIVATE pages is useless for
anything.
> > Well, what do you want to happen here? The RDMA parts are
> > reasonable, but I don't want to add new functionality without a
> > purpose - the other parts need to be settled out first.
>
> At the RDMA side, we mainly want to check if the changes are
> acceptable. For example, the part about adding 'fd' to the device
> ops and the ioctl interface. All the previous comments are very
> helpful for us to refine the patch so that we can be ready when GPU
> side support becomes available.
Well, I'm not totally happy with the way the umem and the fd is
handled so roughly and incompletely..
> > Hum. This is not actually so hard to do. The whole dma buf
> > proposal would make a lot more sense if the 'dma buf MR' had to be
> > the dynamic kind and the driver had to provide the faulting. It
> > would not be so hard to change mlx5 to be able to work like this,
> > perhaps. (the locking might be a bit tricky though)
>
> The main issue is that not all NICs support ODP.
Sure, but there is lots of infrastructure work here to be done on dma
buf, having a correct consumer in the form of ODP might be helpful to
advance it.
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-30 19:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-29 17:31 [RFC PATCH v2 0/3] RDMA: add dma-buf support Jianxin Xiong
2020-06-29 17:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/3] RDMA/umem: Support importing dma-buf as user memory region Jianxin Xiong
2020-06-30 19:04 ` Xiong, Jianxin
2020-06-29 17:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/3] RDMA/core: Expand the driver method 'reg_user_mr' to support dma-buf Jianxin Xiong
2020-06-30 19:04 ` Xiong, Jianxin
2020-06-29 17:31 ` [RFC PATCH v2 3/3] RDMA/uverbs: Add uverbs command for dma-buf based MR registration Jianxin Xiong
2020-06-30 19:05 ` Xiong, Jianxin
2020-06-29 18:51 ` [RFC PATCH v2 0/3] RDMA: add dma-buf support Jason Gunthorpe
2020-06-30 17:21 ` Xiong, Jianxin
2020-06-30 17:34 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-06-30 18:46 ` Xiong, Jianxin
2020-06-30 19:17 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2020-06-30 20:08 ` Xiong, Jianxin
2020-07-02 12:27 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-07-01 9:03 ` Christian König
2020-07-01 12:07 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-01 12:14 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-01 12:39 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-07-01 12:55 ` Christian König
2020-07-01 15:42 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-01 17:15 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-07-02 13:10 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-02 13:29 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-07-02 14:50 ` Christian König
2020-07-02 18:15 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-03 12:03 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-07-03 12:52 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-03 13:14 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-07-03 13:21 ` Christian König
2020-07-07 21:58 ` Xiong, Jianxin
2020-07-08 9:38 ` Christian König
2020-07-08 9:49 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-07-08 14:20 ` Christian König
2020-07-08 14:33 ` Alex Deucher
2020-06-30 18:56 ` Xiong, Jianxin
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