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Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <0679872d-3d03-2fa3-5bd2-80f694357203@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/17/19 1:07 AM, David Hildenbrand wrote: > Very interesting topic. I heard similar demand from HPC folks > (especially involving other memory types ("tiers")). There, I think > you often want to let the application manage that. But of course, for > many applications an automatic management might already be > beneficial. > > Am I correct that you are using PMEM in this area along with > ZONE_DEVICE and not by giving PMEM to the buddy (add_memory())? The PMEM starts out as ZONE_DEVICE, but we unbind it from its original driver and bind it to this stub of a "driver": drivers/dax/kmem.c which uses add_memory() on it. There's some nice tooling inside the daxctl component of ndctl to do all the sysfs magic to make this happen.