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Jérôme Glisse authored
Patch series "HMM (Heterogeneous Memory Management)", v25. Heterogeneous Memory Management (HMM) (description and justification) Today device driver expose dedicated memory allocation API through their device file, often relying on a combination of IOCTL and mmap calls. The device can only access and use memory allocated through this API. This effectively split the program address space into object allocated for the device and useable by the device and other regular memory (malloc, mmap of a file, share memory, â) only accessible by CPU (or in a very limited way by a device by pinning memory). Allowing different isolated component of a program to use a device thus require duplication of the input data structure using device memory allocator. This is reasonable for simple data structure (array, grid, image, â) but this get extremely complex with advance data structure (list, tree, graph, â) that rely on a web of memory pointers. This is becom...
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