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Message-ID: <64f801e098dd2_234994294d0@iweiny-mobl.notmuch>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 21:36:48 -0700
From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
To: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>, Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
"Dan Williams" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
CC: Navneet Singh <navneet.singh@...el.com>,
Fan Ni <fan.ni@...sung.com>,
Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>,
Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@...el.com>,
"Vishal Verma" <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>,
<linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 08/18] cxl/region: Add Dynamic Capacity CXL region
support
Dave Jiang wrote:
>
>
> On 8/28/23 22:20, Ira Weiny wrote:
> > CXL devices optionally support dynamic capacity. CXL Regions must be
> > configured correctly to access this capacity. Similar to ram and pmem
> > partitions, DC Regions represent different partitions of the DPA space.
> >
> > Interleaving is deferred due to the complexity of managing extents on
> > multiple devices at the same time. However, there is nothing which
> > directly prevents interleave support at this time. The check allows
> > for early rejection.
> >
> > To maintain backwards compatibility with older software, CXL regions
> > need a default DAX device to hold the reference for the region until it
> > is deleted.
> >
> > Add create_dc_region sysfs entry to create DC regions. Share the logic
> > of devm_cxl_add_dax_region() and region_is_system_ram(). Special case
> > DC capable CXL regions to create a 0 sized seed DAX device until others
> > can be created on dynamic space later.
> >
> > Flag dax_regions to indicate 0 capacity available until dax_region
> > extents are supported by the region.
> >
> > Co-developed-by: Navneet Singh <navneet.singh@...el.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Navneet Singh <navneet.singh@...el.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
>
> You probably should update kernel version to v6.7. Otherwise
Done.
> Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>
>
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