On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 09:01:17AM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
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> On Fri, 22 May 2020, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
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> > On 5/22/20 3:01 PM, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 02:52:30PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
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> > > > On Thu, 21 May 2020, Dan
On Fri, 22 May 2020, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> On 5/22/20 3:01 PM, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> > On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 02:52:30PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
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> > > On Thu, 21 May 2020, Dan Williams wrote:
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> > > > On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 10:03 AM Aneesh Kumar K.V
> > > >
On 5/22/20 3:01 PM, Michal Suchánek wrote:
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 02:52:30PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
On Thu, 21 May 2020, Dan Williams wrote:
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 10:03 AM Aneesh Kumar K.V
wrote:
Moving on to the patch itself--Aneesh, have you audited other persistent
memory
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 02:52:30PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
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> On Thu, 21 May 2020, Dan Williams wrote:
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> > On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 10:03 AM Aneesh Kumar K.V
> > wrote:
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> > > > Moving on to the patch itself--Aneesh, have you audited other persistent
> > > > memory users in the
On Thu, 21 May 2020, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 10:03 AM Aneesh Kumar K.V
> wrote:
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> > > Moving on to the patch itself--Aneesh, have you audited other persistent
> > > memory users in the kernel? For example, drivers/md/dm-writecache.c does
> > > this:
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On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 7:39 AM Jeff Moyer wrote:
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> Dan Williams writes:
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> >> But I agree with your concern that if we have older kernel/applications
> >> that continue to use `dcbf` on future hardware we will end up
> >> having issues w.r.t powerfail consistency. The plan is what you
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 10:03 AM Aneesh Kumar K.V
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> On 5/21/20 8:08 PM, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> > Dan Williams writes:
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> >>> But I agree with your concern that if we have older kernel/applications
> >>> that continue to use `dcbf` on future hardware we will end up
> >>> having issues
On 5/21/20 8:08 PM, Jeff Moyer wrote:
Dan Williams writes:
But I agree with your concern that if we have older kernel/applications
that continue to use `dcbf` on future hardware we will end up
having issues w.r.t powerfail consistency. The plan is what you outlined
above as tighter ecosystem
Dan Williams writes:
>> But I agree with your concern that if we have older kernel/applications
>> that continue to use `dcbf` on future hardware we will end up
>> having issues w.r.t powerfail consistency. The plan is what you outlined
>> above as tighter ecosystem control. Considering we don't
Dan Williams writes:
> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 6:53 AM Aneesh Kumar K.V
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>> Dan Williams writes:
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>> > On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 10:30 PM Aneesh Kumar K.V
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>> ...
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>> >> Applications using new instructions will behave as expected when running
>> >> on P8 and P9.
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 6:53 AM Aneesh Kumar K.V
wrote:
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> Dan Williams writes:
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> > On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 10:30 PM Aneesh Kumar K.V
> > wrote:
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> ...
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> >> Applications using new instructions will behave as expected when running
> >> on P8 and P9. Only future hardware will differentiate
Dan Williams writes:
> On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 10:30 PM Aneesh Kumar K.V
> wrote:
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>> Applications using new instructions will behave as expected when running
>> on P8 and P9. Only future hardware will differentiate between 'dcbf' and
>> 'dcbfps'
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> Right, this is the problem.
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 10:30 PM Aneesh Kumar K.V
wrote:
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> Hi Dan,
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> Apologies for the delay in response. I was waiting for feedback from
> hardware team before responding to this email.
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> Dan Williams writes:
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> > On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 8:47 PM Aneesh Kumar K.V
> > wrote:
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Hi Dan,
Apologies for the delay in response. I was waiting for feedback from
hardware team before responding to this email.
Dan Williams writes:
> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 8:47 PM Aneesh Kumar K.V
> wrote:
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>> Architectures like ppc64 provide persistent memory specific barriers
>> that
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 8:47 PM Aneesh Kumar K.V
wrote:
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> Architectures like ppc64 provide persistent memory specific barriers
> that will ensure that all stores for which the modifications are
> written to persistent storage by preceding dcbfps and dcbstps
> instructions have updated
Architectures like ppc64 provide persistent memory specific barriers
that will ensure that all stores for which the modifications are
written to persistent storage by preceding dcbfps and dcbstps
instructions have updated persistent storage before any data
access or data transfer caused by
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