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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Heterogeneous memory management (mirror process address space on a device mmu).
Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 17:18:36 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1399447116.4161.36.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFweCGWQMSxP09MJMhJ0XySZqvw=QaoUWwsWU4KaqDgOhw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 09:32 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> and what I think a GPU flush has to do is to do the actual flushes
> when asked to (because that's what it will need to do to work with a
> real TLB eventually), but if there's some crazy asynchronous
> acknowledge thing from hardware, it's possible to perhaps wait for
> that in the final phase (*before* we free the pages we gathered).

Hrm, difficult. We have some pretty strong assumptions that
ptep_clear_flush() is fully synchronous as far as I can tell... ie, your
trick would work for the unmap case but everything else is still
problematic.

Ben.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-07  7:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-02 13:51 [RFC] Heterogeneous memory management (mirror process address space on a device mmu) j.glisse
2014-05-02 13:52 ` [PATCH 01/11] mm: differentiate unmap for vmscan from other unmap j.glisse
2014-05-02 13:52 ` [PATCH 02/11] mmu_notifier: add action information to address invalidation j.glisse
2014-05-02 13:52 ` [PATCH 03/11] mmu_notifier: pass through vma to invalidate_range and invalidate_page j.glisse
2014-05-02 13:52 ` [PATCH 04/11] interval_tree: helper to find previous item of a node in rb interval tree j.glisse
2014-05-02 13:52 ` [PATCH 05/11] mm/memcg: support accounting null page and transfering null charge to new page j.glisse
2014-05-02 13:52 ` [PATCH 06/11] hmm: heterogeneous memory management j.glisse
2014-05-02 13:52 ` [PATCH 07/11] hmm: support moving anonymous page to remote memory j.glisse
2014-05-02 13:52 ` [PATCH 08/11] hmm: support for migrate file backed pages " j.glisse
2014-05-02 13:52 ` [PATCH 09/11] fs/ext4: add support for hmm migration to remote memory of pagecache j.glisse
2014-05-02 13:52 ` [PATCH 10/11] hmm/dummy: dummy driver to showcase the hmm api j.glisse
2014-05-02 13:52 ` [PATCH 11/11] hmm/dummy_driver: add support for fake remote memory using pages j.glisse
2014-05-06 10:29 ` [RFC] Heterogeneous memory management (mirror process address space on a device mmu) Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-06 14:57   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-06 15:00     ` Jerome Glisse
2014-05-06 15:18       ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-06 15:33         ` Jerome Glisse
2014-05-06 15:42           ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-06 15:47           ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-06 16:18             ` Jerome Glisse
2014-05-06 16:32               ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-06 16:49                 ` Jerome Glisse
2014-05-06 17:28                 ` Jerome Glisse
2014-05-06 17:43                   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-06 18:13                     ` Jerome Glisse
2014-05-06 18:22                       ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-06 18:38                         ` Jerome Glisse
2014-05-07  7:18                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2014-05-07  7:14               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-05-07 12:39                 ` Jerome Glisse
2014-05-09  1:26                 ` Jerome Glisse
2014-05-10  4:28                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-05-11  0:48                     ` Jerome Glisse
2014-05-06 16:30             ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-06 16:34               ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-06 16:47                 ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-06 16:54                   ` Jerome Glisse
2014-05-06 18:02                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-06 18:26                       ` Jerome Glisse
2014-05-06 22:44                 ` David Airlie
2014-05-07  2:33   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-05-07 13:00     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-07 17:34       ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-05-07 16:21     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-08 16:47     ` sagi grimberg
2014-05-08 17:56       ` Jerome Glisse
2014-05-09  1:42         ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-05-09  1:45           ` Jerome Glisse

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