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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 5/6] mm/gup: migrate pinned pages out of movable zone
On Mon 14-12-20 15:21:21, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 14.12.20 14:36, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 08:29:11AM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> >
> >>> Racing with another GUP in another thread is also not reasonable, so
> >>> failing to isolate can't be a failure
> >>
> >> Having VMs with multiple vfio containers is certainly realistic, and
> >> optimizing in user space to do vfio mappings concurrently doesn‘t
> >> sound too crazy to me. But I haven‘t checked if vfio common code
> >> already handles such concurrency.
> >
> > There is a lot more out there than vfio.. RDMA already does concurrent
> > pin_user_pages in real apps
>
> I actually misread your comment. I think we both agree that temporary
> isolation failures must not lead to a failure.

Yes, isolation failures are ephemeral. I believe that the migration
should start distinguishing between these and hard failures.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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