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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
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Subject: Re: HMM (heterogeneous memory management) v6
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:00:56 -0600 (CST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1411111259560.6657@gentwo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1415644096-3513-1-git-send-email-j.glisse@gmail.com>

On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, j.glisse@gmail.com wrote:

> In a nutshell HMM is a subsystem that provide an easy to use api to mirror a
> process address on a device with minimal hardware requirement (mainly device
> page fault and read only page mapping). This does not rely on ATS and PASID
> PCIE extensions. It intends to supersede those extensions by allowing to move
> system memory to device memory in a transparent fashion for core kernel mm
> code (ie cpu page fault on page residing in device memory will trigger
> migration back to system memory).

Could we define a new NUMA node that maps memory from the GPU and
then simply use the existing NUMA features to move a process over there.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-11 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-10 18:28 HMM (heterogeneous memory management) v6 j.glisse
2014-11-10 18:28 ` [PATCH 1/5] mmu_notifier: add event information to address invalidation v6 j.glisse
2014-11-10 18:28 ` [PATCH 2/5] mmu_notifier: keep track of active invalidation ranges v2 j.glisse
2014-11-10 18:28 ` [PATCH 3/5] lib: lockless generic and arch independent page table (gpt) v2 j.glisse
2014-11-10 20:22   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-11-10 20:58     ` Jerome Glisse
2014-11-10 21:35       ` Linus Torvalds
2014-11-10 21:47         ` Linus Torvalds
2014-11-10 22:58           ` Jerome Glisse
2014-11-10 22:50         ` Jerome Glisse
2014-11-10 23:53           ` Linus Torvalds
2014-11-11  2:45             ` Jerome Glisse
2014-11-11  3:16               ` Linus Torvalds
2014-11-11  4:19                 ` Jerome Glisse
2014-11-11  4:29                 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-11-11  9:59               ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-11-11 13:42                 ` Jerome Glisse
2014-11-11 21:01                 ` David Airlie
2014-11-13 23:50             ` Linus Torvalds
2014-11-14  0:58               ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-11-14  1:18                 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-11-14  1:50                   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-11-13 16:07     ` Rik van Riel
2014-11-10 18:28 ` [PATCH 4/5] hmm: heterogeneous memory management v6 j.glisse
2014-11-11 19:00 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2014-11-12 20:09   ` HMM (heterogeneous memory management) v6 Jerome Glisse
2014-11-12 23:08     ` Christoph Lameter
2014-11-13  4:28       ` Jerome Glisse

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