From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, imammedo@redhat.com, ehabkost@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/9] Add memfd memory backend
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 15:24:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170602142445.GD11096@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170602141229.15326-1-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 06:12:20PM +0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Add a new Linux-specific memory backend, similar to hostmem-file,
> except that it doesn't need file path. It also try to enforce memory
> sealing if available. It is thus slightly easier and secure, and is
> compatible with transparent huge-pages since Linux 4.8.
What about explicit huge pages ? They are the key scenario scenario where
libvirt uses hostmem-file. AFAICT, there's no way to request explicit
huge pages with memfd_create() syscall :-(
Regards,
Daniel
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-02 14:12 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/9] Add memfd memory backend Marc-André Lureau
2017-06-02 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/9] exec: check kvm mmu notifiers earlier Marc-André Lureau
2017-06-02 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/9] exec: split file_ram_alloc() Marc-André Lureau
2017-06-02 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 3/9] exec: split qemu_ram_alloc_from_file() Marc-André Lureau
2017-06-02 17:55 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-06-02 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 4/9] Add memory_region_init_ram_from_fd() Marc-André Lureau
2017-06-02 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 5/9] ivshmem: use ram_from_fd() Marc-André Lureau
2017-06-05 13:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-06-02 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 6/9] memory: remove memory_region_set_fd Marc-André Lureau
2017-06-02 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 7/9] memfd: split qemu_memfd_alloc() Marc-André Lureau
2017-06-02 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 8/9] Add memfd based hostmem Marc-André Lureau
2017-06-02 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 9/9] tests: use memfd in vhost-user-test Marc-André Lureau
2017-06-02 14:24 ` Daniel P. Berrange [this message]
2017-06-02 14:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/9] Add memfd memory backend Marc-André Lureau
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