linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] x86/sgx: Add accounting for tracking overcommit

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Date:   Tue, 11 Jan 2022 07:43:35 -0800
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Haitao Huang <haitao.huang@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-sgx@...r.kernel.org, Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        x86@...nel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] x86/sgx: Add accounting for tracking overcommit

On 1/11/22 06:20, Haitao Huang wrote:
> If the system has a ton of RAM but limited EPC, I think it makes sense 
> to allow more EPC swapping, can we do min(0.5*RAM, 2*EPC)?
> I suppose if the system is used for heavy enclave load, user would be 
> willing to at least use half of RAM.

If I have 100GB of RAM and 100MB of EPC, can I really *meaningfully* run 
50GB of enclaves?  In that case, if everything was swapped out evenly, I 
would only have a 499/500 chance that a given page reference would fault.

This isn't about a "heavy enclave load".  If there is *that* much 
swapped-out enclave memory, will an enclave even make meaningful forward 
progress?