Re: [RFC 0/8] Define coherent device memory node

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On 10/24/2016 11:32 AM, David Nellans wrote:
> On 10/24/2016 01:04 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> If you *really* don't want a "cdm" page to be migrated, then why isn't
>> that policy set on the VMA in the first place?  That would keep "cdm"
>> pages from being made non-cdm.  And, why would autonuma ever make a
>> non-cdm page and migrate it in to cdm?  There will be no NUMA access
>> faults caused by the devices that are fed to autonuma.
>>
> Pages are desired to be migrateable, both into (starting cpu zone
> movable->cdm) and out of (starting cdm->cpu zone movable) but only
> through explicit migration, not via autonuma.

OK, and is there a reason that the existing mbind code plus NUMA
policies fails to give you this behavior?

Does autonuma somehow override strict NUMA binding?

>  other pages in the same
> VMA should still be migrateable between CPU nodes via autonuma however.

That's not the way the implementation here works, as I understand it.
See the VM_CDM patch and my responses to it.

> Its expected a lot of these allocations are going to end up in THPs. 
> I'm not sure we need to explicitly disallow hugetlbfs support but the
> identified use case is definitely via THPs not tlbfs.

I think THP and hugetlbfs are implementations, not use cases. :)

Is it too hard to support hugetlbfs that we should complicate its code
to exclude it from this type of memory?  Why?

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