Unaddressable device memory
Unaddressable device memory
[Kernel] Posted Mar 22, 2017 14:32 UTC (Wed) by jake
In a morning plenary session on the first day of the 2017 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit, Jérôme Glisse led a discussion on memory that cannot be addressed by the CPU because it lives in devices like GPUs or FPGAs. There is often a substantial pile of memory on these devices and it can be accessed much more quickly by the devices than the system RAM can be. Making it easier for user-space programmers to use that memory transparently is the goal of the heterogeneous memory management (HMM) patches that Glisse has been working on.