Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] CXL Development Discussions

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On 5/6/24 12:27 PM, Adam Manzanares wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I would like to have a discussion with the CXL development community about
> current outstanding issues and also invite developers interested in RAS and
> memory tiering to participate.
> 
> The first topic I believe we should discuss is how we can ensure as a group
> that we are prioritizing upstream work. On a recent upstream CXL development
> discussion call there was a call to review more work. I apologize for not
> grabbing the link, but I believe Dave Jiang is leveraging patchwork and this
> link should be shared with others so we can help get more reviews where needed.

Bundle for the potential fixes
https://patchwork.kernel.org/bundle/cxllinux/cxl-fixes/

Bundle for the next merge window
https://patchwork.kernel.org/bundle/cxllinux/cxl-next/

Just be aware patchwork only takes patches, so the bundle are registered with the first patch of a series. The listing does display the origin series.

DJ

> 
> The second topic I would like to discuss is how we integrate RAS features that
> have similar equivalents in the kernel. A CXL device can provide info about 
> memory media errors in a similar fashion to memory controllers that have EDAC
> support. Discussions have been put on the list and I would like to hear thoughts
> from the community about where this should go [1]. On the same topic CXL has 
> port level RAS features and the PCIe DW series touched on this issue  [2]
> 
> The third topic I would like to discuss is how we can get a set of common
> benchmarks for memory tiering evaluations. Our team has done some initial
> work in this space, but we want to hear more from end users about their 
> workloads of concern. There was a proposal related to this topic, but from what 
> I understand no meeting has been held [3]. 
> 
> The last topic that I believe is worth discussion is how do we come up with
> a baseline for testing. I am aware of 3 efforts that could be used cxl_test, 
> qemu, and uunit testing framework [4].
> 
> Apologies for getting this out late, and please include anyone that may be
> interested in joining a discussion.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cxl/20240417075053.3273543-1-ruansy.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxx/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231130115044.53512-1-shradha.t@xxxxxxxxxxx/
> [3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/2b29dd3d-bb2c-6a8c-94d2-d5c2e035516a@xxxxxxxxxx
> [4] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cxl/170795677066.3697776.12587812713093908173.stgit@ubuntu/




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