Re: [LSF/MM ATTEND] HMM (heterogeneous memory manager) and GPU

[Jerome Glisse <j.glisse@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 09:16:02PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Jerome Glisse <j.glisse@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to attend LSF/MM this year to discuss about HMM
> > (Heterogeneous Memory Manager) and more generaly all topics
> > related to GPU and heterogeneous memory architecture (including
> > persistent memory).
> >
> > I want to discuss how to move forward with HMM merging and i
> > hope that by MM summit time i will be able to share more
> > informations publicly on devices which rely on HMM.
> >
> 
> I mentioned in my request to attend mail, I would like to attend this
> discussion. I am wondering whether we can split the series further to
> mmu_notifier bits and then the page table mirroring bits. Can the mmu notifier
> changes go in early so that we can merge the page table mirroring later ?

Well the mmu_notifier bit can be upstream on their own but they would
not useful. Maybe on KVM side i need to investigate.


> Can be page table mirroring bits be built as a kernel module ?

Well i am not sure this is a good idea. Memory migration requires to
hook up into page fault code path and it relies on the mirrored page
table to service fault on memory that is migrated.

Jerome

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