On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Jeff Moyer wrote:
[..]
> As for sub-division it was designed for the volatile case, I've heard
> feedback that some want it for the pmem case. You and I agree that
> it's *not* a good interface for the pmem ca
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Hi, Dan,
>
> Dan Williams writes:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Jeff Moyer wrote:
>>> Hi, Dan,
>>>
>>> In general, I have a couple of concerns with this patchset:
>>> 1) You're making a case that subdivision shouldn't be persistent, wh
Hi, Dan,
Dan Williams writes:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Jeff Moyer wrote:
>> Hi, Dan,
>>
>> In general, I have a couple of concerns with this patchset:
>> 1) You're making a case that subdivision shouldn't be persistent, which
>>means that all of the code we already have for subdiv
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Hi, Dan,
>
> In general, I have a couple of concerns with this patchset:
> 1) You're making a case that subdivision shouldn't be persistent, which
>means that all of the code we already have for subdividing devices
>(partitions, libnvdim
Hi, Dan,
In general, I have a couple of concerns with this patchset:
1) You're making a case that subdivision shouldn't be persistent, which
means that all of the code we already have for subdividing devices
(partitions, libnvdimm) has to be re-invented in userspace, and
existing tools ca
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Hi, Dan,
>
> Dan Williams writes:
>
>>>From [PATCH 6/8] dax: sub-division support:
>>
>> Device-DAX is a mechanism to establish mappings of performance / feature
>> differentiated memory with strict fault behavior guarantees. With
>> sub-divis
Hi, Dan,
Dan Williams writes:
>>From [PATCH 6/8] dax: sub-division support:
>
> Device-DAX is a mechanism to establish mappings of performance / feature
> differentiated memory with strict fault behavior guarantees. With
> sub-division support a platform owner can provision sub-allocations of a
>From [PATCH 6/8] dax: sub-division support:
Device-DAX is a mechanism to establish mappings of performance / feature
differentiated memory with strict fault behavior guarantees. With
sub-division support a platform owner can provision sub-allocations of a
dax-region into separate devices. The pr
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