Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Discuss least bad options for resolving longterm-GUP usage by RDMA

[Jan Kara]

On Wed 06-02-19 15:54:01, Doug Ledford wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-02-06 at 12:20 -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 03:16:02PM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2019-02-06 at 11:40 -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 07:16:21PM +0000, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> > > > > though? If we only allow this use case then we may not have to worry about
> > > > > long term GUP because DAX mapped files will stay in the physical location
> > > > > regardless.
> > > > 
> > > > ... except for truncate.  And now that I think about it, there was a
> > > > desire to support hot-unplug which also needed revoke.
> > > 
> > > We already support hot unplug of RDMA devices.  But it is extreme.  How
> > > does hot unplug deal with a program running from the device (something
> > > that would have returned ETXTBSY)?
> > 
> > Not hot-unplugging the RDMA device but hot-unplugging an NV-DIMM.
> 
> Is an NV-DIMM the only thing we use DAX on?

Currently yes. However KVM people are soon going to use it for their
purposes as well (essentially directly sharing host page cache between
guests).

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
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