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Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 09:41:55 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] evacuate struct page from the block layer,
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From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 05:19:48PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> What is the primary thing that is driving this need? Do we have a very
>> concrete example?
>
> FYI, I plan to to implement RAID acceleration using nvdimms, and I plan to
> ue pages for that.  The code just merge for 4.1 can easily support page
> backing, and I plan to use that for now.  This still leaves support
> for the gigantic intel nvdimms discovered over EFI out, but given that
> I don't have access to them, and I dont know of any publically available
> there's little I can do for now.  But adding on demand allocate struct
> pages for the seems like the easiest way forward.  Boaz already has
> code to allocate pages for them, although not on demand but at boot / plug in
> time.

Hmmm, the capacities of persistent memory that would be assigned for a
raid accelerator would be limited by diminishing returns.  I.e. there
seems to be no point to assign more than 8GB or so to the cache?  If
that's the case the capacity argument loses some teeth, just
"blk_get(FMODE_EXCL) + memory_hotplug a small capacity" and be done.
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