Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1162678Ab3DEVck (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Apr 2013 17:32:40 -0400 Received: from e36.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.154]:59059 "EHLO e36.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1162305Ab3DEVci (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Apr 2013 17:32:38 -0400 Message-ID: <515F42EE.8060203@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:32:30 -0400 From: "Michael R. Hines" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130106 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland Dreier CC: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Jason Gunthorpe , Sean Hefty , Hal Rosenstock , Yishai Hadas , Christoph Lameter , "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" , LKML , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] rdma: add a new IB_ACCESS_GIFT flag References: <20130324155153.GA8597@redhat.com> <515F3160.4020007@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <515F3948.40205@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-MML: No X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 13040521-7606-0000-0000-00000A255738 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1137 Lines: 31 Well, I have the "is_dup_page()" commented out.......when RDMA is activated..... Is there something else in QEMU that could be touching the page that I don't know about? - Michael On 04/05/2013 05:03 PM, Roland Dreier wrote: > On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Michael R. Hines > wrote: >> Sorry, I was wrong. ignore the comments about cgroups. That's still broken. >> (i.e. trying to register RDMA memory while using a cgroup swap limit cause >> the process get killed). >> >> But the GIFT flag patch works (my understanding is that GIFT flag allows the >> adapter to transmit stale memory information, it does not have anything to >> do with cgroups specifically). > The point of the GIFT patch is to avoid triggering copy-on-write so > that memory doesn't blow up during migration. If that doesn't work > then there's no point to the patch. > > - R. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/