Re: [PATCH v3 0/1] Use HMM for ODP v3

[Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 12:29:43PM +0000, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 11:41:24AM -0400, jglisse@redhat.com wrote:
> > From: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
> >
> > Changes since v1/v2 are about rebase and better comments in the code.
> > Previous cover letter slightly updated.
> >
> >
> > This patchset convert RDMA ODP to use HMM underneath this is motivated
> > by stronger code sharing for same feature (share virtual memory SVM or
> > Share Virtual Address SVA) and also stronger integration with mm code to
> > achieve that. It depends on HMM patchset posted for inclusion in 5.2 [2]
> > and [3].
> >
> > It has been tested with pingpong test with -o and others flags to test
> > different size/features associated with ODP.
> >
> > Moreover they are some features of HMM in the works like peer to peer
> > support, fast CPU page table snapshot, fast IOMMU mapping update ...
> > It will be easier for RDMA devices with ODP to leverage those if they
> > use HMM underneath.
> >
> > Quick summary of what HMM is:
> >     HMM is a toolbox for device driver to implement software support for
> >     Share Virtual Memory (SVM). Not only it provides helpers to mirror a
> >     process address space on a device (hmm_mirror). It also provides
> >     helper to allow to use device memory to back regular valid virtual
> >     address of a process (any valid mmap that is not an mmap of a device
> >     or a DAX mapping). They are two kinds of device memory. Private memory
> >     that is not accessible to CPU because it does not have all the expected
> >     properties (this is for all PCIE devices) or public memory which can
> >     also be access by CPU without restriction (with OpenCAPI or CCIX or
> >     similar cache-coherent and atomic inter-connect).
> >
> >     Device driver can use each of HMM tools separatly. You do not have to
> >     use all the tools it provides.
> >
> > For RDMA device i do not expect a need to use the device memory support
> > of HMM. This device memory support is geared toward accelerator like GPU.
> >
> >
> > You can find a branch [1] with all the prerequisite in. This patch is on
> > top of rdma-next with the HMM patchset [2] and mmu notifier patchset [3]
> > applied on top of it.
> >
> > [1] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~glisse/linux/log/?h=rdma-5.2
> 
> Hi Jerome,
> 
> I took this branch and merged with our latest rdma-next, but it doesn't
> compile.
> 
> In file included from drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mem.c:35:
> ./include/rdma/ib_umem_odp.h:110:20: error: field _mirror_ has
> incomplete type
>   struct hmm_mirror mirror;
>                       ^~~~~~
> ./include/rdma/ib_umem_odp.h:132:18: warning: _struct hmm_range_ declared inside parameter list will not be visible outside of this definition or declaration
> struct hmm_range *range);
> 	^~~~~~~~~
> make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:276: drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mem.o] Error 1
> 
> The reason to it that in my .config, ZONE_DEVICE, MEMORY_HOTPLUG and HMM options were disabled.

Silly my i forgot to update kconfig so i pushed a branch with
proper kconfig changes in the ODP patch but it depends on changes
to the HMM kconfig so that HMM_MIRROR can be enabled on arch that
do not have everything for HMM_DEVICE.

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~glisse/linux/log/?h=rdma-odp-hmm-v4

I doing build of various kconfig variation before posting to make
sure it is all good.

Cheers,
Jérôme