Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 23:34:09 +0300
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: "Michael R. Hines" <mrhines@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>,
        Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>,
        Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com>,
        Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
        "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] rdma: add a new IB_ACCESS_GIFT flag
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On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 04:17:36PM -0400, Michael R. Hines wrote:
> The userland part of the patch was missing (IBV_ACCESS_GIFT).
> 
> I added flag that to /usr/include in addition to this patch and did
> a test RDMA migrate and it seems to work without any problems.
> 
> I also removed the IBV_*_WRITE flags on the sender-side and
> activated cgroups with the "memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes" activated
> and the migration with RDMA also succeeded without any problems
> (both with *and* without GIFT also worked).
> 
> Any additional tests you would like?
> 
> 
> - Michael

RDMA can't really work with swap so not sure how that's relevant.

Please check memory.usage_in_bytes - is it lower with
the GIFT flag?  I think this is what we really care about.

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MST
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