From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: "Wang, Haiyue" <haiyue.wang@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
Elena Agostini <eagostini@nvidia.com>,
"andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru" <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>,
"Yigit, Ferruh" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
"jerinj@marvell.com" <jerinj@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] gpudev: introduce memory API
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2021 09:49:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3569019.DFCUuWcX1B@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BN8PR11MB379589288419BD793A0EB923F73B9@BN8PR11MB3795.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>
04/06/2021 20:04, Wang, Haiyue:
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > 04/06/2021 15:25, Wang, Haiyue:
> > > From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > > > Another question is about the function rte_gpu_free().
> > > > How do we recognize that a memory chunk is from the CPU and GPU visible,
> > > > or just from GPU?
> > > >
> > >
> > > I didn't find the rte_gpu_free_visible definition, and the rte_gpu_free's
> > > comment just says: deallocate a chunk of memory allocated with rte_gpu_malloc*
> > >
> > > Looks like the rte_gpu_free can handle this case ?
> >
> > This is the proposal, yes.
> >
> > > And from the definition "rte_gpu_free(uint16_t gpu_id, void *ptr)", the
> > > free needs to check whether this memory belong to the GPU or not, so it
> > > also can recognize the memory type, I think.
> >
> > Yes that's the idea behind having a single free function.
> > We could have some metadata in front of the memory chunk.
> > My question is to confirm whether it is a good design or not,
> > and whether it should be driver specific or have a common struct in the lib.
> >
> > Opinions?
> >
>
> Make the GPU memory to be registered into the common lib API with the metadata
> like address, size etc, and also some GPU specific callbacks like to handle how
> to make GPU memory visible to CPU ?
>
> And the memory register can be like the exist external memory function:
>
> int
> rte_extmem_register(void *va_addr, size_t len, rte_iova_t iova_addrs[],
> unsigned int n_pages, size_t page_sz)
How do you specify the device ID?
I may have missed something.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-05 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 128+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-02 20:35 Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-02 20:46 ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-06-02 20:48 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-03 7:06 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-06-03 7:26 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-03 7:49 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-06-03 8:26 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-03 8:57 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-06-03 7:18 ` David Marchand
2021-06-03 7:30 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-03 7:47 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-03 8:28 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-03 8:41 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-03 8:43 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-03 8:47 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-03 8:53 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-03 9:20 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-03 9:36 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-03 10:04 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-03 10:30 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-03 11:38 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-04 12:55 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-04 15:05 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-03 9:33 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-06-04 10:28 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-04 11:09 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-04 12:46 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-04 13:05 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-06-04 13:18 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-04 13:59 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-06-04 14:09 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-04 15:20 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-04 15:51 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-04 18:20 ` Wang, Haiyue
2021-06-05 5:09 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-06 1:13 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2021-06-06 5:28 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-07 10:29 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-07 7:20 ` Wang, Haiyue
2021-06-07 10:43 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-07 13:54 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-07 16:47 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-08 4:10 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-08 6:34 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-08 7:09 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-06-08 7:32 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-15 18:24 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-06-15 18:54 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-07 23:31 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2021-06-04 5:51 ` Wang, Haiyue
2021-06-04 8:15 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-04 11:07 ` Wang, Haiyue
2021-06-04 12:43 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-04 13:25 ` Wang, Haiyue
2021-06-04 14:06 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-06-04 18:04 ` Wang, Haiyue
2021-06-05 7:49 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2021-06-05 11:09 ` Wang, Haiyue
2021-06-06 1:10 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2021-06-07 10:50 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-07-30 13:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] heterogeneous computing library Thomas Monjalon
2021-07-30 13:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v2 1/7] hcdev: introduce heterogeneous computing device library Thomas Monjalon
2021-07-30 13:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v2 2/7] hcdev: add event notification Thomas Monjalon
2021-07-30 13:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v2 3/7] hcdev: add child device representing a device context Thomas Monjalon
2021-07-30 13:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v2 4/7] hcdev: support multi-process Thomas Monjalon
2021-07-30 13:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v2 5/7] hcdev: add memory API Thomas Monjalon
2021-07-30 13:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v2 6/7] hcdev: add communication flag Thomas Monjalon
2021-07-30 13:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v2 7/7] hcdev: add communication list Thomas Monjalon
2021-07-31 7:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v2 0/7] heterogeneous computing library Jerin Jacob
2021-07-31 8:21 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-07-31 13:42 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-08-27 9:44 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-08-27 12:19 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-08-29 5:32 ` Wang, Haiyue
2021-09-01 15:35 ` Elena Agostini
2021-09-02 13:12 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-09-06 16:11 ` Elena Agostini
2021-09-06 17:15 ` Wang, Haiyue
2021-09-06 17:22 ` Elena Agostini
2021-09-07 0:55 ` Wang, Haiyue
2021-10-09 1:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/9] GPU library eagostini
2021-10-09 1:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/9] gpudev: introduce GPU device class library eagostini
2021-10-09 1:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/9] gpudev: add event notification eagostini
2021-10-09 1:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/9] gpudev: add child device representing a device context eagostini
2021-10-09 1:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/9] gpudev: support multi-process eagostini
2021-10-09 1:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/9] gpudev: add memory API eagostini
2021-10-08 20:18 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-10-29 19:38 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2021-11-08 15:16 ` Elena Agostini
2021-10-09 1:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 6/9] gpudev: add memory barrier eagostini
2021-10-08 20:16 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-10-09 1:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 7/9] gpudev: add communication flag eagostini
2021-10-09 1:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 8/9] gpudev: add communication list eagostini
2021-10-09 1:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 9/9] doc: add CUDA example in GPU guide eagostini
2021-10-10 10:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/9] GPU library Jerin Jacob
2021-10-11 8:18 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-10-11 8:43 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-10-11 9:12 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-10-11 9:29 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-10-11 10:27 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-10-11 11:41 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-10-11 12:44 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-10-11 13:30 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-10-19 10:00 ` Elena Agostini
2021-10-19 18:47 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-10-19 19:11 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-10-19 19:56 ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] " Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2021-11-03 19:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 " eagostini
2021-11-03 19:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/9] gpudev: introduce GPU device class library eagostini
2021-11-03 19:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/9] gpudev: add event notification eagostini
2021-11-03 19:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/9] gpudev: add child device representing a device context eagostini
2021-11-03 19:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 4/9] gpudev: support multi-process eagostini
2021-11-03 19:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 5/9] gpudev: add memory API eagostini
2021-11-03 19:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 6/9] gpudev: add memory barrier eagostini
2021-11-03 19:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 7/9] gpudev: add communication flag eagostini
2021-11-03 19:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 8/9] gpudev: add communication list eagostini
2021-11-03 19:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 9/9] doc: add CUDA example in GPU guide eagostini
2021-11-08 18:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/9] GPU library eagostini
2021-11-08 16:25 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-11-08 18:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/9] gpudev: introduce GPU device class library eagostini
2021-11-08 18:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/9] gpudev: add event notification eagostini
2021-11-08 18:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/9] gpudev: add child device representing a device context eagostini
2021-11-08 18:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 4/9] gpudev: support multi-process eagostini
2021-11-08 18:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 5/9] gpudev: add memory API eagostini
2021-11-08 18:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 6/9] gpudev: add memory barrier eagostini
2021-11-08 18:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 7/9] gpudev: add communication flag eagostini
2021-11-08 18:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 8/9] gpudev: add communication list eagostini
2021-11-08 18:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 9/9] doc: add CUDA example in GPU guide eagostini
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