linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] mm: support THP migration to device private memory

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Date:   Mon, 9 Nov 2020 10:14:15 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        Bharata B Rao <bharata@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] mm: support THP migration to device private
 memory

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 01:26:50PM -0800, Ralph Campbell wrote:
>
> On 11/6/20 12:03 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> I hate the extra pin count magic here.  IMHO we really need to finish
>> off the series to get rid of the extra references on the ZONE_DEVICE
>> pages first.
>
> First, thanks for the review comments.
>
> I don't like the extra refcount either, that is why I tried to fix that up
> before resending this series. However, you didn't like me just fixing the
> refcount only for device private pages and I don't know the dax/pmem code
> and peer-to-peer PCIe uses of ZONE_DEVICE pages well enough to say how
> long it will take me to fix all the use cases.
> So I wanted to make progress on the THP migration code in the mean time.

I think P2P is pretty trivial, given that ZONE_DEVICE pages are used like
a normal memory allocator.  DAX is the interesting case, any specific
help that you need with that?