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On 2/10/21 4:59 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
...
>> GPU atomic operations to sysmem are hard to categorize, because because application
>> programmers could easily write programs that do a long series of atomic operations.
>> Such a program would be a little weird, but it's hard to rule out.
> 
> Yeah, but we can forcefully break this whenever we feel like by revoking
> the page, moving it, and then reinstating the gpu pte again and let it
> continue.

Oh yes, that's true.

> 
> If that's no possible then what we need here instead is an mlock() type of
> thing I think.
No need for that, then.


thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA