linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/2] mempinfd: Add new syscall to provide memory pin

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Date:   Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:04:05 -0400
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
To:     "Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)" <song.bao.hua@...ilicon.com>
Cc:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        "Wangzhou (B)" <wangzhou1@...ilicon.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org" <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-api@...r.kernel.org" <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "kevin.tian@...el.com" <kevin.tian@...el.com>,
        "jean-philippe@...aro.org" <jean-philippe@...aro.org>,
        "eric.auger@...hat.com" <eric.auger@...hat.com>,
        "Liguozhu (Kenneth)" <liguozhu@...ilicon.com>,
        "zhangfei.gao@...aro.org" <zhangfei.gao@...aro.org>,
        "chensihang (A)" <chensihang1@...ilicon.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/2] mempinfd: Add new syscall to provide memory
 pin

On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 10:22:47PM +0000, Song Bao Hua (Barry Song) wrote:

> The problem is that SVA declares we can use any memory of a process
> to do I/O. And in real scenarios, we are unable to customize most
> applications to make them use the pool. So we are looking for some
> extension generically for applications such as Nginx, Ceph.

But those applications will suffer jitter even if their are using CPU
to do the same work. I fail to see why adding an accelerator suddenly
means the application owner will care about jitter introduced by
migration/etc.

Again in proper SVA it should be quite unlikely to take a fault caused
by something like migration, on the same likelyhood as the CPU. If
things are faulting so much this is a problem then I think it is a
system level problem with doing too much page motion.

Jason