On 08/13/2015 05:40 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 03:42:47PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: >> The support I have suggested and submitted for zone-less sections. >> (In my add_persistent_memory() patchset) >> >> Would work perfectly well and transparent for all such multimedia cases. >> (All hacks removed). In fact I have loaded pmem (with-pages) on a VRAM >> a few times and it is great easy fun. (I wanted to experiment with cached >> memory over a pcie) > > And everyone agree that it was both buggy and incomplete. > What? No one ever said anything about bugs. Is the first ever I hear of it. I was always in the notion that no one even tried it out. I'm smoking these page-full nvidimms for more than a year. With RDMA to pears and swap out to disks. So is not that bad I would say > Dan has done a respin of the page backed nvdimm work with most of > these comments addressed. > I would love some comments. All I got so far is silence. (And I do not like Dan's patches comments will come next week) > I have to say I hate both pfn-based I/O [1] and page backed nvdimms with > passion, so we're looking into the lesser evil with an open mind. > > [1] not the SGL part posted here, which I think is quite sane. The bio > side is much worse, though. > What can I say. I like the page-backed nvdimms. And the long term for me is 2M pages. I hope we can sit one day soon and you explain to me whats evil about it. I would really really like to understand Thanks though Boaz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
