Re: [RFC 0/8] Define coherent device memory node

From: Jerome Glisse
Date: Wed Oct 26 2016 - 12:07:35 EST


On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 04:39:19PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Jerome Glisse <j.glisse@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 09:56:35AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> >> Jerome Glisse <j.glisse@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >>
> >> > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 10:01:49AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> >> >
> >> I looked at the hmm-v13 w.r.t migration and I guess some form of device
> >> callback/acceleration during migration is something we should definitely
> >> have. I still haven't figured out how non addressable and coherent device
> >> memory can fit together there. I was waiting for the page cache
> >> migration support to be pushed to the repository before I start looking
> >> at this closely.
> >>
> >
> > The page cache migration does not touch the migrate code path. My issue with
> > page cache is writeback. The only difference with existing migrate code is
> > refcount check for ZONE_DEVICE page. Everything else is the same.
>
> What about the radix tree ? does file system migrate_page callback handle
> replacing normal page with ZONE_DEVICE page/exceptional entries ?
>

It use the exact same existing code (from mm/migrate.c) so yes the radix tree
is updated and buffer_head are migrated.

Jérôme