From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
To: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 12/21] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add unified page table entry wrapper enums
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 11:02:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <387064d2-8c6b-4b26-93e3-cab88d41dca3@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1775730646.3752.4760@nvidia.com>
On 4/9/26 3:33 AM, Joel Fernandes wrote:
...
> Since it is 3 against 1 here, I rest my case :-). I am still in
As Danilo points out, we want to foster healthy debate and land
on whatever comes out of that. Not just by counting noses. :)
> disagreement since I do not see much benefit (that is why I said
> pointless above). Actually it is not even about readability, that is
> subjective (and I haven’t heard most people say parametrizing code for
> the sake of it makes it more readable anyway). It is that the code gen
> is worse, and the complexity is just moved to a higher level in the
> code, not removed. So what are we getting out of this really, other than
> more boiler plate in higher layers of the code that did not exist
> before? Not performance, not better generated code. Really nothing. See
> all the data points in my previous reply.
Alex's latest response[1] does a *much* better job than mine, in
explicitly highlighting what we get out of this. (It arrived a bit after
your response here.) Please take a very close look at that response and
see what you think.
The patterns in these page tables are not a new thing, and Rust has
language features to help express them.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/DHOKJ3MJNO5P.SXKOAYKX13JL@nvidia.com
thanks,
--
John Hubbard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-09 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-11 0:39 [PATCH v9 00/23] gpu: nova-core: Add memory management support Joel Fernandes
2026-03-11 0:39 ` [PATCH v9 01/23] gpu: nova-core: Select GPU_BUDDY for VRAM allocation Joel Fernandes
2026-03-12 6:34 ` Eliot Courtney
2026-03-16 13:17 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-03-16 16:28 ` Joel Fernandes
2026-03-11 0:39 ` [PATCH v9 02/23] gpu: nova-core: Kconfig: Sort select statements alphabetically Joel Fernandes
2026-03-12 6:35 ` Eliot Courtney
2026-03-16 13:17 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-03-16 16:28 ` Joel Fernandes
2026-03-11 0:39 ` [PATCH v9 03/23] gpu: nova-core: gsp: Return GspStaticInfo from boot() Joel Fernandes
2026-03-12 6:37 ` Eliot Courtney
2026-03-11 0:39 ` [PATCH v9 04/23] gpu: nova-core: gsp: Extract usable FB region from GSP Joel Fernandes
2026-03-13 6:58 ` Eliot Courtney
2026-04-01 23:23 ` Joel Fernandes
2026-03-16 13:18 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-03-16 16:57 ` Joel Fernandes
2026-03-11 0:39 ` [PATCH v9 05/23] gpu: nova-core: gsp: Expose total physical VRAM end from FB region info Joel Fernandes
2026-03-16 13:19 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-03-16 17:00 ` Joel Fernandes
2026-03-11 0:39 ` [PATCH v9 06/23] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add support to use PRAMIN windows to write to VRAM Joel Fernandes
2026-03-11 0:39 ` [PATCH v9 07/23] docs: gpu: nova-core: Document the PRAMIN aperture mechanism Joel Fernandes
2026-03-11 0:39 ` [PATCH v9 08/23] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add common memory management types Joel Fernandes
2026-03-11 0:39 ` [PATCH v9 09/23] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add TLB flush support Joel Fernandes
2026-03-11 0:39 ` [PATCH v9 10/23] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add GpuMm centralized memory manager Joel Fernandes
2026-03-11 0:39 ` [PATCH v9 11/23] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add common types for all page table formats Joel Fernandes
2026-03-11 0:39 ` [PATCH v9 12/23] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add MMU v2 page table types Joel Fernandes
2026-03-11 0:39 ` [PATCH v9 13/23] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add MMU v3 " Joel Fernandes
2026-03-11 0:39 ` [PATCH v9 14/23] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add unified page table entry wrapper enums Joel Fernandes
2026-03-11 0:40 ` [PATCH v9 15/23] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add page table walker for MMU v2/v3 Joel Fernandes
2026-03-11 0:40 ` [PATCH v9 16/23] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add Virtual Memory Manager Joel Fernandes
2026-03-11 0:40 ` [PATCH v9 17/23] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add virtual address range tracking to VMM Joel Fernandes
2026-03-11 0:40 ` [PATCH v9 18/23] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add multi-page mapping API " Joel Fernandes
2026-03-11 0:40 ` [PATCH v9 19/23] gpu: nova-core: Add BAR1 aperture type and size constant Joel Fernandes
2026-03-11 0:40 ` [PATCH v9 20/23] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add BAR1 user interface Joel Fernandes
2026-03-11 0:40 ` [PATCH v9 21/23] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add BAR1 memory management self-tests Joel Fernandes
2026-03-11 0:40 ` [PATCH v9 22/23] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add PRAMIN aperture self-tests Joel Fernandes
2026-03-11 0:40 ` [PATCH v9 23/23] gpu: nova-core: Use runtime BAR1 size instead of hardcoded 256MB Joel Fernandes
2026-03-31 21:20 ` [PATCH v10 00/21] gpu: nova-core: Add memory management support Joel Fernandes
2026-03-31 21:20 ` [PATCH v10 01/21] gpu: nova-core: gsp: Return GspStaticInfo from boot() Joel Fernandes
2026-04-01 8:25 ` Eliot Courtney
2026-04-08 7:34 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-03-31 21:20 ` [PATCH v10 02/21] gpu: nova-core: gsp: Extract usable FB region from GSP Joel Fernandes
2026-04-01 8:27 ` Eliot Courtney
2026-04-01 23:24 ` Joel Fernandes
2026-04-02 5:49 ` Eliot Courtney
2026-04-06 18:56 ` Joel Fernandes
2026-04-08 7:33 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-03-31 21:20 ` [PATCH v10 03/21] gpu: nova-core: gsp: Expose total physical VRAM end from FB region info Joel Fernandes
2026-04-02 5:37 ` Eliot Courtney
2026-04-06 19:42 ` Joel Fernandes
2026-04-06 21:08 ` Joel Fernandes
2026-03-31 21:20 ` [PATCH v10 04/21] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add support to use PRAMIN windows to write to VRAM Joel Fernandes
2026-03-31 21:20 ` [PATCH v10 05/21] docs: gpu: nova-core: Document the PRAMIN aperture mechanism Joel Fernandes
2026-03-31 21:20 ` [PATCH v10 06/21] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add common memory management types Joel Fernandes
2026-03-31 21:20 ` [PATCH v10 07/21] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add TLB flush support Joel Fernandes
2026-04-02 5:49 ` Eliot Courtney
2026-04-06 20:50 ` Joel Fernandes
2026-04-02 5:59 ` Matthew Brost
2026-04-06 21:24 ` Joel Fernandes
2026-04-06 22:10 ` Joel Fernandes
2026-04-07 5:14 ` Matthew Brost
2026-04-08 7:40 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-03-31 21:20 ` [PATCH v10 08/21] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add GpuMm centralized memory manager Joel Fernandes
2026-03-31 21:20 ` [PATCH v10 09/21] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add common types for all page table formats Joel Fernandes
2026-03-31 21:20 ` [PATCH v10 10/21] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add MMU v2 page table types Joel Fernandes
2026-04-02 5:41 ` Eliot Courtney
2026-04-06 21:14 ` Joel Fernandes
2026-03-31 21:20 ` [PATCH v10 11/21] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add MMU v3 " Joel Fernandes
2026-03-31 21:20 ` [PATCH v10 12/21] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add unified page table entry wrapper enums Joel Fernandes
2026-04-02 5:40 ` Eliot Courtney
2026-04-06 21:55 ` Joel Fernandes
2026-04-07 13:42 ` Eliot Courtney
2026-04-07 13:59 ` Joel Fernandes
2026-04-08 7:03 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-04-08 20:19 ` Joel Fernandes
2026-04-09 10:56 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-04-09 11:02 ` Gary Guo
2026-04-08 13:26 ` Eliot Courtney
2026-04-08 16:58 ` Joel Fernandes
2026-04-08 18:01 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-04-08 19:04 ` Joel Fernandes
2026-04-08 23:13 ` John Hubbard
2026-04-09 10:33 ` Joel Fernandes
2026-04-09 11:00 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-04-09 18:02 ` John Hubbard [this message]
2026-03-31 21:20 ` [PATCH v10 13/21] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add page table walker for MMU v2/v3 Joel Fernandes
2026-03-31 21:20 ` [PATCH v10 14/21] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add Virtual Memory Manager Joel Fernandes
2026-03-31 21:20 ` [PATCH v10 15/21] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add virtual address range tracking to VMM Joel Fernandes
2026-03-31 21:20 ` [PATCH v10 16/21] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add multi-page mapping API " Joel Fernandes
2026-03-31 21:20 ` [PATCH v10 17/21] gpu: nova-core: Add BAR1 aperture type and size constant Joel Fernandes
2026-03-31 21:20 ` [PATCH v10 18/21] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add BAR1 user interface Joel Fernandes
2026-03-31 21:20 ` [PATCH v10 19/21] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add BAR1 memory management self-tests Joel Fernandes
2026-03-31 21:20 ` [PATCH v10 20/21] gpu: nova-core: mm: Add PRAMIN aperture self-tests Joel Fernandes
2026-03-31 21:20 ` [PATCH v10 21/21] gpu: nova-core: Use runtime BAR1 size instead of hardcoded 256MB Joel Fernandes
2026-04-02 5:54 ` Eliot Courtney
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