Re: [PATCH v4 07/14] device-dax: compound devmap support

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On 11/5/21 00:38, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 7:59 AM Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Use the newly added compound devmap facility which maps the assigned dax
>> ranges as compound pages at a page size of @align. Currently, this means,
>> that region/namespace bootstrap would take considerably less, given that
>> you would initialize considerably less pages.
>>
>> On setups with 128G NVDIMMs the initialization with DRAM stored struct
>> pages improves from ~268-358 ms to ~78-100 ms with 2M pages, and to less
>> than a 1msec with 1G pages.
>>
>> dax devices are created with a fixed @align (huge page size) which is
>> enforced through as well at mmap() of the device. Faults, consequently
>> happen too at the specified @align specified at the creation, and those
>> don't change through out dax device lifetime.
> 
> s/through out/throughout/
> 
>> MCEs poisons a whole dax huge page, as well as splits occurring at the configured page size.
> 
> A clarification here, MCEs trigger memory_failure() to *unmap* a whole
> dax huge page, the poison stays limited to a single cacheline.
> 
Ah, yes. I'll fix it for v5.

> Otherwise the patch looks good to me.
> 
Thanks!

Btw, does 'looks good' == Reviewed-by (with the commit message clarification above) or is
it that 'should be good with the ammend above and you get the tag in the next round' ?

Asking as IIRC you mentioned this too some other time(s) (in the simpler sparse-vmemmap
patches) hence just clarifying to understand your expected 'process' better.

Also, I will be splitting this series as mentioned in the other discussion ...

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20211019160136.GH3686969@xxxxxxxx/

... So this patch and the previous one should be the last two patches of the series
and the rest (gup, sparse-vmemmmap) will go in parallel.



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