From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] device-dax: sub-division support
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 12:15:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x497f75hxwp.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <148143770485.10950.13227732273892953675.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> (Dan Williams's message of "Sat, 10 Dec 2016 22:28:25 -0800")
Hi, Dan,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> writes:
>>From [PATCH 6/8] dax: sub-division support:
>
> Device-DAX is a mechanism to establish mappings of performance / feature
> differentiated memory with strict fault behavior guarantees. With
> sub-division support a platform owner can provision sub-allocations of a
> dax-region into separate devices. The provisioning mechanism follows the
> same scheme as the libnvdimm sub-system in that a 'seed' device is
> created at initialization time that can be resized from zero to become
> enabled.
>
> Unlike the nvdimm sub-system there is no on media labelling scheme
> associated with this partitioning. Provisioning decisions are ephemeral
> / not automatically restored after reboot. While the initial use case of
> device-dax is persistent memory other uses case may be volatile, so the
> device-dax core is unable to assume the underlying memory is pmem. The
> task of recalling a partitioning scheme or permissions on the device(s)
> is left to userspace.
Can you explain this reasoning in a bit more detail, please? If you
have specific use cases in mind, that would be helpful.
> For persistent allocations, naming, and permissions automatically
> recalled by the kernel, use filesystem-DAX. For a userspace helper
I'd agree with that guidance if it wasn't for the fact that device dax
was born out of the need to be able to flush dirty data in a safe manner
from userspace. At best, we're giving mixed guidance to application
developers.
-Jeff
> library and utility for manipulating device-dax instances see libdaxctl
> and the daxctl utility here: https://github.com/pmem/ndctl
>
> ---
>
> Dan Williams (8):
> dax: add region-available-size attribute
> dax: add region 'id', 'size', and 'align' attributes
> dax: register seed device
> dax: use multi-order radix for resource lookup
> dax: refactor locking out of size calculation routines
> dax: sub-division support
> dax: add / remove dax devices after provisioning
> dax: add debug for region available_size
>
>
> drivers/dax/Kconfig | 1
> drivers/dax/dax.c | 747 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> 2 files changed, 698 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
> _______________________________________________
> Linux-nvdimm mailing list
> Linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
> https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvdimm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-12 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-11 6:28 [PATCH 0/8] device-dax: sub-division support Dan Williams
2016-12-11 6:28 ` [PATCH 1/8] dax: add region-available-size attribute Dan Williams
2016-12-14 14:38 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2016-12-14 15:53 ` Dan Williams
2016-12-15 6:47 ` Dan Williams
2016-12-11 6:28 ` [PATCH 2/8] dax: add region 'id', 'size', and 'align' attributes Dan Williams
2016-12-11 6:28 ` [PATCH 3/8] dax: register seed device Dan Williams
2016-12-11 6:28 ` [PATCH 4/8] dax: use multi-order radix for resource lookup Dan Williams
2016-12-11 6:28 ` [PATCH 5/8] dax: refactor locking out of size calculation routines Dan Williams
2016-12-14 15:01 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2016-12-14 15:55 ` Dan Williams
2016-12-11 6:28 ` [PATCH 6/8] dax: sub-division support Dan Williams
2016-12-11 6:29 ` [PATCH 7/8] dax: add / remove dax devices after provisioning Dan Williams
2016-12-11 6:29 ` [PATCH 8/8] dax: add debug for region available_size Dan Williams
2016-12-12 17:15 ` Jeff Moyer [this message]
2016-12-12 18:46 ` [PATCH 0/8] device-dax: sub-division support Dan Williams
2016-12-13 23:46 ` Jeff Moyer
2016-12-14 1:17 ` Dan Williams
2016-12-15 16:50 ` Jeff Moyer
2016-12-15 23:48 ` Dan Williams
2016-12-16 2:33 ` Dan Williams
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