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To: Ross Zwisler
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Subject: Re: DAX mapping detection (was: Re: [PATCH] Fix region lost in /proc/self/smaps)
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 22:27:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160912052703.GA1897@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160908225636.GB15167-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org>
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 04:56:36PM -0600, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> I think this goes back to our previous discussion about support for the PMEM
> programming model. Really I think what NVML needs isn't a way to tell if it
> is getting a DAX mapping, but whether it is getting a DAX mapping on a
> filesystem that fully supports the PMEM programming model. This of course is
> defined to be a filesystem where it can do all of its flushes from userspace
> safely and never call fsync/msync, and that allocations that happen in page
> faults will be synchronized to media before the page fault completes.
That's a an easy way to flag: you will never get that from a Linux
filesystem, period.
NVML folks really need to stop taking crack and dreaming this could
happen.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-12 5:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-08 4:32 DAX mapping detection (was: Re: [PATCH] Fix region lost in /proc/self/smaps) Dan Williams
[not found] ` <CAPcyv4iDra+mRqEejfGqapKEAFZmUtUcg0dsJ8nt7mOhcT-Qpw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-08 22:56 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-09-08 23:04 ` Dan Williams
2016-09-09 8:55 ` Xiao Guangrong
2016-09-09 15:40 ` Dan Williams
[not found] ` <CAPcyv4ibiZG3SkW0TZywn8Qovo3hpxBqs4wCfw1DFEbbE=1-Mg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-12 6:00 ` Xiao Guangrong
2016-09-12 3:44 ` Rudoff, Andy
2016-09-12 6:31 ` Xiao Guangrong
[not found] ` <20160908225636.GB15167-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-12 1:40 ` Dave Chinner
2016-09-15 5:55 ` Darrick J. Wong
2016-09-15 6:25 ` Dave Chinner
2016-09-12 5:27 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-09-12 7:25 ` Oliver O'Halloran
2016-09-12 7:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-12 8:05 ` Nicholas Piggin
[not found] ` <20160912180507.533b3549-a5aMA/AkCkgK5Ils6ZIQy0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-12 15:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20160912150148.GA10039-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-13 1:31 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-09-13 4:06 ` Dan Williams
2016-09-13 5:40 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-09-12 21:34 ` Dave Chinner
2016-09-13 1:53 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-09-13 7:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20160913071732.GA19433-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-13 9:06 ` Nicholas Piggin
[not found] ` <20160913115311.509101b0-a5aMA/AkCkgK5Ils6ZIQy0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-14 7:39 ` Dave Chinner
2016-09-14 10:19 ` Nicholas Piggin
[not found] ` <20160914201936.08315277-a5aMA/AkCkgK5Ils6ZIQy0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-15 2:31 ` Dave Chinner
2016-09-15 3:49 ` Nicholas Piggin
[not found] ` <20160915134945.0aaa4f5a-a5aMA/AkCkgK5Ils6ZIQy0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-15 10:32 ` Dave Chinner
2016-09-15 11:42 ` Nicholas Piggin
[not found] ` <20160915214222.505f4888-a5aMA/AkCkgK5Ils6ZIQy0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-15 22:33 ` Dave Chinner
2016-09-16 5:54 ` Nicholas Piggin
[not found] ` <20160916155405.6b634bbc-a5aMA/AkCkgK5Ils6ZIQy0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2016-12-19 21:11 ` Ross Zwisler
[not found] ` <20161219211149.GA12822-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org>
2016-12-20 1:09 ` Darrick J. Wong
2016-12-20 1:18 ` Dan Williams
[not found] ` <CAPcyv4g6LVTVrtGz+vdV2bLvskrYrCBss80qB-HtjAE+Sae=UA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-12-21 0:40 ` Darrick J. Wong
[not found] ` <20161221004031.GF9865-PTl6brltDGh4DFYR7WNSRA@public.gmane.org>
2016-12-21 16:53 ` Dan Williams
2016-12-21 21:24 ` Dave Chinner
2016-12-21 21:33 ` Dan Williams
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