From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
jglisse@redhat.com, mgorman@suse.de, aarcange@redhat.com,
riel@redhat.com, airlied@redhat.com,
aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
Cameron Buschardt <cabuschardt@nvidia.com>,
Mark Hairgrove <mhairgrove@nvidia.com>,
Geoffrey Gerfin <ggerfin@nvidia.com>,
John McKenna <jmckenna@nvidia.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Interacting with coherent memory on external devices
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 11:04:46 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1429664686.27410.84.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150422005757.GP5561@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 17:57 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:42:52AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 18:49 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > On Tue, 21 Apr 2015, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thoughts?
> > >
> > > Use DAX for memory instead of the other approaches? That way it is
> > > explicitly clear what information is put on the CAPI device.
> >
> > Care to elaborate on what DAX is ?
>
> I would like to know as well. My first attempt to Google got me nothing
> but Star Trek. Is DAX the persistent-memory topic covered here?
>
> https://lwn.net/Articles/591779/
> https://lwn.net/Articles/610174/
>
> Ben will correct me if I am wrong, but I do not believe that we are
> looking for persistent memory in this case.
Right, it doesn't look at all like what we want.
Ben.
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2015-04-21 21:44 Interacting with coherent memory on external devices Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-21 23:46 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-22 0:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-22 12:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-21 23:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-22 0:05 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-22 0:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-22 1:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-22 13:35 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-22 13:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-22 16:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-22 17:07 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-22 18:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-22 18:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-23 14:12 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-23 19:24 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-24 14:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-24 14:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-24 15:53 ` Rik van Riel
2015-04-23 2:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-23 14:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-23 15:42 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-24 14:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-23 22:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-23 2:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-23 14:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-23 15:25 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-04-23 19:33 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-24 14:12 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-24 14:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-24 15:09 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-25 11:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-24 15:52 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-23 22:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-24 14:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-23 16:04 ` Rik van Riel
2015-04-22 0:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-22 0:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-22 1:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2015-04-22 15:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-22 16:31 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-22 17:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-22 19:07 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-23 2:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-23 14:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-23 16:11 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-24 14:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-24 15:08 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-24 16:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-24 16:43 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-24 16:58 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-24 17:19 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-24 18:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-24 19:29 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-24 20:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-24 20:32 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-25 11:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-27 15:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-27 15:47 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-27 16:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-27 16:29 ` Rik van Riel
2015-04-27 16:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-27 23:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-05-13 14:10 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-05-13 23:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-05-14 7:39 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-05-14 7:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-05-28 18:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-27 16:43 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-27 16:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-27 17:21 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-27 19:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-27 19:35 ` Rik van Riel
2015-04-27 20:52 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-28 14:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-28 17:20 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-27 16:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-27 16:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-24 23:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-23 18:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-24 14:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-24 14:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-24 15:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-24 16:06 ` Rik van Riel
2015-04-25 11:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-24 16:00 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-24 16:08 ` Rik van Riel
2015-04-23 17:28 ` Rik van Riel
2015-04-23 2:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-23 14:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-23 16:22 ` Jerome Glisse
2015-04-24 18:41 ` Oded Gabbay
2015-04-23 19:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-04-22 15:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-04-25 2:32 ` Rik van Riel
2015-04-25 3:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-04-25 11:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
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