netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add gup fast + longterm and use it in HFI1

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Date:   Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:23:35 -0700
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
To:     "Weiny, Ira" <ira.weiny@...el.com>
Cc:     "linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Marciniszyn, Mike" <mike.marciniszyn@...el.com>,
        "Dalessandro, Dennis" <dennis.dalessandro@...el.com>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add gup fast + longterm and use it in HFI1

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 09:14:56PM +0000, Weiny, Ira wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 12:16:40PM -0800, ira.weiny@...el.com wrote:
> > > From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
> > >
> > > NOTE: This series depends on my clean up patch to remove the write
> > > parameter from gup_fast_permitted()[1]
> > >
> > > HFI1 uses get_user_pages_fast() due to it performance advantages.
> > > Like RDMA,
> > > HFI1 pages can be held for a significant time.  But
> > > get_user_pages_fast() does not protect against mapping of FS DAX pages.
> > 
> > If HFI1 can use the _fast varient, can't all the general RDMA stuff use it too?
> > 
> > What is the guidance on when fast vs not fast should be use?
> 
> Right now it can't because it holds mmap_sem across the call.  Once
> Shiraz's patches are accepted removing the umem->hugetlb flag I
> think we can change umem.c.

Okay, that make sense, we should change it when Shiraz's patches are
merged
 
> Also, it specifies FOLL_FORCE which can't currently be specified
> with gup fast.  One idea I had was to change get_user_pages_fast()
> to use gup_flags instead of a single write flag.  But that proved to
> be a very big cosmetic change across a lot of callers so I went this
> way.

I think you should do it.. :)

Jason