Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM/BPF proposal]: Physr discussion

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Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 11:36:51AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Jason Gunthorpe via Lsf-pc wrote:
> > > I would like to have a session at LSF to talk about Matthew's
> > > physr discussion starter:
> > > 
> > >  https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/YdyKWeU0HTv8m7wD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > > 
> > > I have become interested in this with some immediacy because of
> > > IOMMUFD and this other discussion with Christoph:
> > > 
> > >  https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/4-v2-472615b3877e+28f7-vfio_dma_buf_jgg@xxxxxxxxxx/
> > 
> > I think this is a worthwhile discussion. My main hangup with 'struct
> > page' elimination in general is that if anything needs to be allocated
> 
> You're the first one to bring up struct page elimination.  Neither Jason
> nor I have that as our motivation.

Oh, ok, then maybe I misread the concern in the vfio discussion. I
thought the summary there is debating the ongoing requirement for
'struct page' for P2PDMA?



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