From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>,
John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] mm/hmm: allow to mirror vma of a file on a DAX backed filesystem
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 09:06:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190313090604.968100351b19338cacbfa3bc@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190313001018.GA3312@redhat.com>
On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 20:10:19 -0400 Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> wrote:
> > You're correct. We chose to go this way because the HMM code is so
> > large and all-over-the-place that developing it in a standalone tree
> > seemed impractical - better to feed it into mainline piecewise.
> >
> > This decision very much assumed that HMM users would definitely be
> > merged, and that it would happen soon. I was skeptical for a long time
> > and was eventually persuaded by quite a few conversations with various
> > architecture and driver maintainers indicating that these HMM users
> > would be forthcoming.
> >
> > In retrospect, the arrival of HMM clients took quite a lot longer than
> > was anticipated and I'm not sure that all of the anticipated usage
> > sites will actually be using it. I wish I'd kept records of
> > who-said-what, but I didn't and the info is now all rather dissipated.
> >
> > So the plan didn't really work out as hoped. Lesson learned, I would
> > now very much prefer that new HMM feature work's changelogs include
> > links to the driver patchsets which will be using those features and
> > acks and review input from the developers of those driver patchsets.
>
> This is what i am doing now and this patchset falls into that. I did
> post the ODP and nouveau bits to use the 2 new functions (dma map and
> unmap). I expect to merge both ODP and nouveau bits for that during
> the next merge window.
>
> Also with 5.1 everything that is upstream is use by nouveau at least.
> They are posted patches to use HMM for AMD, Intel, Radeon, ODP, PPC.
> Some are going through several revisions so i do not know exactly when
> each will make it upstream but i keep working on all this.
>
> So the guideline we agree on:
> - no new infrastructure without user
> - device driver maintainer for which new infrastructure is done
> must either sign off or review of explicitly say that they want
> the feature I do not expect all driver maintainer will have
> the bandwidth to do proper review of the mm part of the infra-
> structure and it would not be fair to ask that from them. They
> can still provide feedback on the API expose to the device
> driver.
The patchset in -mm ("HMM updates for 5.1") has review from Ralph
Campbell @ nvidia. Are there any other maintainers who we should have
feedback from?
> - driver bits must be posted at the same time as the new infra-
> structure even if they target the next release cycle to avoid
> inter-tree dependency
> - driver bits must be merge as soon as possible
Are there links to driver patchsets which we can add to the changelogs?
> Thing we do not agree on:
> - If driver bits miss for any reason the +1 target directly
> revert the new infra-structure. I think it should not be black
> and white and the reasons why the driver bit missed the merge
> window should be taken into account. If the feature is still
> wanted and the driver bits missed the window for simple reasons
> then it means that we push everything by 2 release ie the
> revert is done in +1 then we reupload the infra-structure in
> +2 and finaly repush the driver bit in +3 so we loose 1 cycle.
> Hence why i would rather that the revert would only happen if
> it is clear that the infrastructure is not ready or can not
> be use in timely (over couple kernel release) fashion by any
> drivers.
I agree that this should be more a philosophy than a set of hard rules.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-13 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 98+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-29 16:54 [PATCH 00/10] HMM updates for 5.1 jglisse
2019-01-29 16:54 ` [PATCH 01/10] mm/hmm: use reference counting for HMM struct jglisse
2019-02-20 23:47 ` John Hubbard
2019-02-20 23:59 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-02-21 0:06 ` John Hubbard
2019-02-21 0:15 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-02-21 0:32 ` John Hubbard
2019-02-21 0:37 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-02-21 0:42 ` John Hubbard
2019-01-29 16:54 ` [PATCH 02/10] mm/hmm: do not erase snapshot when a range is invalidated jglisse
2019-02-20 23:58 ` John Hubbard
2019-01-29 16:54 ` [PATCH 03/10] mm/hmm: improve and rename hmm_vma_get_pfns() to hmm_range_snapshot() jglisse
2019-02-21 0:25 ` John Hubbard
2019-02-21 0:28 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-01-29 16:54 ` [PATCH 04/10] mm/hmm: improve and rename hmm_vma_fault() to hmm_range_fault() jglisse
2019-01-29 16:54 ` [PATCH 05/10] mm/hmm: improve driver API to work and wait over a range jglisse
2019-01-29 16:54 ` [PATCH 06/10] mm/hmm: add default fault flags to avoid the need to pre-fill pfns arrays jglisse
2019-01-29 16:54 ` [PATCH 07/10] mm/hmm: add an helper function that fault pages and map them to a device jglisse
2019-03-18 20:21 ` Dan Williams
2019-03-18 20:41 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-03-18 21:30 ` Dan Williams
2019-03-18 22:15 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-03-19 3:29 ` Dan Williams
2019-03-19 13:30 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-03-19 8:44 ` Ira Weiny
2019-03-19 17:10 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-03-19 14:10 ` Ira Weiny
2019-01-29 16:54 ` [PATCH 08/10] mm/hmm: support hugetlbfs (snap shoting, faulting and DMA mapping) jglisse
2019-01-29 16:54 ` [PATCH 09/10] mm/hmm: allow to mirror vma of a file on a DAX backed filesystem jglisse
2019-01-29 18:41 ` Dan Williams
2019-01-29 19:31 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-01-29 20:51 ` Dan Williams
2019-01-29 21:21 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-01-30 2:32 ` Dan Williams
2019-01-30 3:03 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-01-30 17:25 ` Dan Williams
2019-01-30 18:36 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-01-31 3:28 ` Dan Williams
2019-01-31 4:16 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-01-31 5:44 ` Dan Williams
2019-03-05 22:16 ` Andrew Morton
2019-03-06 4:20 ` Dan Williams
2019-03-06 15:51 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-03-06 15:57 ` Dan Williams
2019-03-06 16:03 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-03-06 16:06 ` Dan Williams
2019-03-07 17:46 ` Andrew Morton
2019-03-07 18:56 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-03-12 3:13 ` Dan Williams
2019-03-12 15:25 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-03-12 16:06 ` Dan Williams
2019-03-12 19:06 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-03-12 19:30 ` Dan Williams
2019-03-12 20:34 ` Dave Chinner
2019-03-13 1:06 ` Dan Williams
2019-03-12 21:52 ` Andrew Morton
2019-03-13 0:10 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-03-13 0:46 ` Dan Williams
2019-03-13 1:00 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-03-13 16:06 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2019-03-13 18:39 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-03-06 15:49 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-03-06 22:18 ` Andrew Morton
2019-03-07 0:36 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-01-29 16:54 ` [PATCH 10/10] mm/hmm: add helpers for driver to safely take the mmap_sem jglisse
2019-02-20 21:59 ` John Hubbard
2019-02-20 22:19 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-02-20 22:40 ` John Hubbard
2019-02-20 23:09 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-02-20 23:17 ` [PATCH 00/10] HMM updates for 5.1 John Hubbard
2019-02-20 23:36 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-02-22 23:31 ` Ralph Campbell
2019-03-13 1:27 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-03-13 16:10 ` Andrew Morton
2019-03-13 18:01 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-03-13 18:33 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-03-18 17:00 ` Kuehling, Felix
2019-03-18 17:04 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-03-18 18:30 ` Dan Williams
2019-03-18 18:54 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-03-18 19:18 ` Dan Williams
2019-03-18 19:28 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-03-18 19:36 ` Dan Williams
2019-03-19 16:40 ` Andrew Morton
2019-03-19 16:58 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-03-19 17:12 ` Andrew Morton
2019-03-19 17:18 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-03-19 17:33 ` Dan Williams
2019-03-19 17:45 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-03-19 18:42 ` Dan Williams
2019-03-19 19:05 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-03-19 19:13 ` Dan Williams
2019-03-19 14:18 ` Ira Weiny
2019-03-19 22:24 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-03-19 19:18 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-03-19 20:25 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-03-19 21:51 ` Stephen Rothwell
2019-03-19 18:51 ` Deucher, Alexander
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