Re: [PATCH 4/5] hmm: heterogeneous memory management v3

2014-07-30 Thread Haggai Eran
On 28/07/2014 18:39, Jerome Glisse wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 03:27:14PM +0300, Haggai Eran wrote: >> On 14/06/2014 03:48, Jérôme Glisse wrote:> From: Jérôme Glisse >> >>> >>> Motivation: >>> >>> ... >>> >>> The aim of the heterogeneous memory management is to provide a common API >>> that

Re: [PATCH 4/5] hmm: heterogeneous memory management v3

2014-07-28 Thread Jerome Glisse
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 03:27:14PM +0300, Haggai Eran wrote: > On 14/06/2014 03:48, Jérôme Glisse wrote:> From: Jérôme Glisse > > > > > Motivation: > > > > ... > > > > The aim of the heterogeneous memory management is to provide a common API > > that > > can be use by any such devices in orde

Re: [PATCH 4/5] hmm: heterogeneous memory management v3

2014-07-28 Thread Haggai Eran
On 14/06/2014 03:48, Jérôme Glisse wrote:> From: Jérôme Glisse > > Motivation: > > ... > > The aim of the heterogeneous memory management is to provide a common API that > can be use by any such devices in order to mirror process address. The hmm > code > provide an unique entry point and int

[PATCH 4/5] hmm: heterogeneous memory management v3

2014-06-13 Thread Jérôme Glisse
From: Jérôme Glisse Motivation: Heterogeneous memory management is intended to allow a device to transparently access a process address space without having to lock pages of the process or take references on them. In other word mirroring a process address space while allowing the regular memory