Re: [PATCH 00/35] Enhance memory utilization with DMEMFS

2020-10-20 Thread yulei zhang
On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 3:03 AM Joao Martins wrote: > > On 10/19/20 2:37 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > On 15/10/20 00:25, Dan Williams wrote: > >> Now, with recent device-dax extensions, it > >> also has a coarse grained memory management system for physical > >> address-space partitioning and a p

Re: [PATCH 00/35] Enhance memory utilization with DMEMFS

2020-10-19 Thread Joao Martins
On 10/19/20 2:37 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 15/10/20 00:25, Dan Williams wrote: >> Now, with recent device-dax extensions, it >> also has a coarse grained memory management system for physical >> address-space partitioning and a path for struct-page-less backing for >> VMs. What feature gaps re

Re: [PATCH 00/35] Enhance memory utilization with DMEMFS

2020-10-19 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 15/10/20 00:25, Dan Williams wrote: > Now, with recent device-dax extensions, it > also has a coarse grained memory management system for physical > address-space partitioning and a path for struct-page-less backing for > VMs. What feature gaps remain vs dmemfs, and can those gaps be closed > w

Re: [PATCH 00/35] Enhance memory utilization with DMEMFS

2020-10-14 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 4:00 AM Joao Martins wrote: [..] > On 10/10/20 9:15 AM, yulei zhang wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 7:53 PM Joao Martins > > wrote: > >> On 10/9/20 12:39 PM, yulei zhang wrote: > >>> Joao, thanks a lot for the feedback. One more thing needs to mention > >>> is that dmem

Re: [PATCH 00/35] Enhance memory utilization with DMEMFS

2020-10-12 Thread yulei zhang
> v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk; pbonz...@redhat.com > > Cc: linux-fsde...@vger.kernel.org; k...@vger.kernel.org; > > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; xiaoguangrong.e...@gmail.com; > > kernel...@gmail.com; lihaiwei.ker...@gmail.com; Yulei Zhang > > Subject: [PATCH 00/35] Enhance memory u

RE: [PATCH 00/35] Enhance memory utilization with DMEMFS

2020-10-12 Thread Zengtao (B)
vger.kernel.org; k...@vger.kernel.org; > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; xiaoguangrong.e...@gmail.com; > kernel...@gmail.com; lihaiwei.ker...@gmail.com; Yulei Zhang > Subject: [PATCH 00/35] Enhance memory utilization with DMEMFS > > From: Yulei Zhang > > In current system each physical

Re: [PATCH 00/35] Enhance memory utilization with DMEMFS

2020-10-12 Thread Joao Martins
On 10/10/20 9:15 AM, yulei zhang wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 7:53 PM Joao Martins wrote: >> On 10/9/20 12:39 PM, yulei zhang wrote: >>> Joao, thanks a lot for the feedback. One more thing needs to mention >>> is that dmemfs also support fine-grained >>> memory management which makes it more fl

Re: [PATCH 00/35] Enhance memory utilization with DMEMFS

2020-10-10 Thread yulei zhang
On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 7:53 PM Joao Martins wrote: > > On 10/9/20 12:39 PM, yulei zhang wrote: > > Joao, thanks a lot for the feedback. One more thing needs to mention > > is that dmemfs also support fine-grained > > memory management which makes it more flexible for tenants with > > different req

Re: [PATCH 00/35] Enhance memory utilization with DMEMFS

2020-10-09 Thread Joao Martins
On 10/9/20 12:39 PM, yulei zhang wrote: > Joao, thanks a lot for the feedback. One more thing needs to mention > is that dmemfs also support fine-grained > memory management which makes it more flexible for tenants with > different requirements. > So as DAX when it allows to partition a region (st

Re: [PATCH 00/35] Enhance memory utilization with DMEMFS

2020-10-09 Thread yulei zhang
Joao, thanks a lot for the feedback. One more thing needs to mention is that dmemfs also support fine-grained memory management which makes it more flexible for tenants with different requirements. On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 3:01 AM Joao Martins wrote: > > [adding a couple folks that directly or indi

Re: [PATCH 00/35] Enhance memory utilization with DMEMFS

2020-10-08 Thread Joao Martins
[adding a couple folks that directly or indirectly work on the subject] On 10/8/20 8:53 AM, yulei.ker...@gmail.com wrote: > From: Yulei Zhang > > In current system each physical memory page is assocaited with > a page structure which is used to track the usage of this page. > But due to the memo

[PATCH 00/35] Enhance memory utilization with DMEMFS

2020-10-08 Thread yulei . kernel
From: Yulei Zhang In current system each physical memory page is assocaited with a page structure which is used to track the usage of this page. But due to the memory usage rapidly growing in cloud environment, we find the resource consuming for page structure storage becomes highly remarkable. S