linux-kernel - Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] export notifier #1

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Message-ID: <20080123120446.GF15848@v2.random>
Date:	Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:04:46 +0100
From:	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...ranet.com>
To:	Robin Holt <holt@....com>
Cc:	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Izik Eidus <izike@...ranet.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	steiner@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	daniel.blueman@...drics.com, Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] export notifier #1

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 04:52:47AM -0600, Robin Holt wrote:
> But 100 callouts holding spinlocks will not work for our implementation
> and even if the callouts are made with spinlocks released, we would very
> strongly prefer a single callout which messages the range to the other
> side.

But you take the physical address and turn into mm+va with your rmap...

> > Also, our rmap key for finding the spte is keyed on (mm, va).  I imagine
> > most RDMA cards are similar.
> 
> For our RDMA rmap, it is based upon physical address.

so why do you turn it into mm+va?

> >> There is only the need to walk twice for pages that are marked Exported.
> >> And the double walk is only necessary if the exporter does not have its
> >> own rmap. The cross partition thing that we are doing has such an rmap and
> >> its a matter of walking the exporters rmap to clear out the external
> >> references and then we walk the local rmaps. All once.
> >>
> >
> > The problem is that external mmus need a reverse mapping structure to
> > locate their ptes.  We can't expand struct page so we need to base it on mm
> > + va.
> 
> Our rmap takes a physical address and turns it into mm+va.

Why don't you stick to mm+va and use get_user_pages and let the VM do
the swapins etc...?

> > Can they wait on that bit?
> 
> PageLocked(page) should work, right?  We already have a backoff
> mechanism so we expect to be able to adapt it to include a
> PageLocked(page) check.

It's not PageLocked but wait_on_page___not___exported() called on the
master node. Plus nothing in the VM of the master node calls
SetPageExported... good luck to make it work (KVM swapping OTOH works
like a charm already w/o the backwards secondary-TLB-flushing order).
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