Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Discuss least bad options for resolving longterm-GUP usage by RDMA

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On Wed, 2019-02-06 at 11:40 -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 07:16:21PM +0000, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> > 
> > though? If we only allow this use case then we may not have to worry about
> > long term GUP because DAX mapped files will stay in the physical location
> > regardless.
> 
> ... except for truncate.  And now that I think about it, there was a
> desire to support hot-unplug which also needed revoke.

We already support hot unplug of RDMA devices.  But it is extreme.  How
does hot unplug deal with a program running from the device (something
that would have returned ETXTBSY)?

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