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a="162225634" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.77,365,1596524400"; d="scan'208";a="162225634" X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga005.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.41]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 11 Oct 2020 22:28:23 -0700 IronPort-SDR: Awdi9Evv+UAQx0jH4ny/s7+Nxcmli85F+a73BOsSCHQvCG+q13xwJ2JLwUM5pKItlqpgm8qi5b o2XGvRLHUUbw== X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.77,365,1596524400"; d="scan'208";a="529816997" Received: from iweiny-desk2.sc.intel.com (HELO localhost) ([10.3.52.147]) by orsmga005-auth.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 11 Oct 2020 22:28:22 -0700 Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 22:28:18 -0700 From: Ira Weiny To: Coly Li Cc: Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Andy Lutomirski , Peter Zijlstra , Kent Overstreet , x86@kernel.org, Dave Hansen , Dan Williams , Fenghua Yu , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, target-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-aio@kvack.org, io-uring@vger.kernel.org, linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org, linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org, cluster-devel@redhat.com, ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, linux-cachefs@redhat.com, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC PKS/PMEM 48/58] drivers/md: Utilize new kmap_thread() Message-ID: <20201012052817.GZ2046448@iweiny-DESK2.sc.intel.com> References: <20201009195033.3208459-1-ira.weiny@intel.com> <20201009195033.3208459-49-ira.weiny@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.1 (2018-12-01) On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 10:20:34AM +0800, Coly Li wrote: > On 2020/10/10 03:50, ira.weiny@intel.com wrote: > > From: Ira Weiny > > > > These kmap() calls are localized to a single thread. To avoid the over > > head of global PKRS updates use the new kmap_thread() call. > > > > Hi Ira, > > There were a number of options considered. > > 1) Attempt to change all the thread local kmap() calls to kmap_atomic() > 2) Introduce a flags parameter to kmap() to indicate if the mapping > should be global or not > 3) Change ~20-30 call sites to 'kmap_global()' to indicate that they > require a global mapping of the pages > 4) Change ~209 call sites to 'kmap_thread()' to indicate that the > mapping is to be used within that thread of execution only > > > I copied the above information from patch 00/58 to this message. The > idea behind kmap_thread() is fine to me, but as you said the new api is > very easy to be missed in new code (even for me). I would like to be > supportive to option 2) introduce a flag to kmap(), then we won't forget > the new thread-localized kmap method, and people won't ask why a > _thread() function is called but no kthread created. Thanks for the feedback. I'm going to hold off making any changes until others weigh in. FWIW, I kind of like option 2 as well. But there is already kmap_atomic() so it seemed like kmap_XXXX() was more in line with the current API. Thanks, Ira > > Thanks. > > > Coly Li >