2021-3-22 Meeting Meeting notes

Meeting Details

Topic: linaro-open-discussion meeting
Time: March 22 , 2021 10.00 AM London

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Attendees

  • Lorenzo

  • Vincent
  • Jammy
  • James Morse
  • Souvik Chakravarty
  • Jonathan
  • Jean-Philippe
  • Shameerali
  • Salil
  • Barry Song
  • Yunsheng Lin
  • Tao Zeng


Agenda

Confirmed topics

Meeting Notes

  • CXL on memory (Jonathan presented several new slides after the introduction in last call)
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    • Handling of memory on Type 2 devices (like GPU), two modes:
      • Host biased (coherency is managed as part of the host SoC)
      • Device biased (device issues coherence messages)
    • Vikram's question: how should it be presented by Firmware?
      • Problem 1: normal memory at boot can't be offlined later
        • Likely to need element of BIOS control
      • Problem 2: pinned memory in region
        • Patch sets under review to migrate memory out of ZONE_MOVABLE on pin
    • Generic Initiator Reminder
    • GI as bridge for CXL etc.
  • Virtual CPU hotplug
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    • Salil shared some figures about QEMU boot time impact by the number of CPU cores
      • Pre vCPU Init
      • Post vCPU Init (but pre-VGIC Init)
      • Post VGIC Init
      • Pre Linux Kernel Load
      • Post Kernel Load (But Pre SMBIOS setup)
    • LP: we need to converge and do some wrap up for proposal
      • Salil to share some details about how to get the figures
  • Recording: link (password: *92a8xSE) 

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