From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:32945) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UOEGB-00013X-5P for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:33:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UOEFp-0000uQ-Sa for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:33:23 -0400 Received: from e7.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.137]:35705) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UOEFp-0000t9-O0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:33:01 -0400 Received: from /spool/local by e7.ny.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Fri, 5 Apr 2013 17:32:55 -0400 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by d01dlp02.pok.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36BD96E8070 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2013 17:32:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (d03av01.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.167]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id r35LWWn9291534 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2013 17:32:33 -0400 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id r35LWVR3031574 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2013 15:32:32 -0600 Message-ID: <515F42EE.8060203@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:32:30 -0400 From: "Michael R. Hines" MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20130324155153.GA8597@redhat.com> <515F3160.4020007@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <515F3948.40205@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] rdma: add a new IB_ACCESS_GIFT flag List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Roland Dreier Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" , "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" , Yishai Hadas , LKML , Hal Rosenstock , Jason Gunthorpe , Sean Hefty , Christoph Lameter Well, I have the "is_dup_page()" commented out.......when RDMA is activated..... Is there something else in QEMU that could be touching the page that I don't know about? - Michael On 04/05/2013 05:03 PM, Roland Dreier wrote: > On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Michael R. Hines > wrote: >> Sorry, I was wrong. ignore the comments about cgroups. That's still broken. >> (i.e. trying to register RDMA memory while using a cgroup swap limit cause >> the process get killed). >> >> But the GIFT flag patch works (my understanding is that GIFT flag allows the >> adapter to transmit stale memory information, it does not have anything to >> do with cgroups specifically). > The point of the GIFT patch is to avoid triggering copy-on-write so > that memory doesn't blow up during migration. If that doesn't work > then there's no point to the patch. > > - R. >