From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
To: "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com>
Cc: QEMU <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 0/9] Add memfd memory backend
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 18:12:18 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180109201218.GF18022@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ+F1CJOkEJMizL3EAVVyW16L5ucW2gU+4U2BKHw7OFzfOpWag@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 07:48:43PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Marc-André Lureau
> <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> 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.
> >
> > Since Linux 4.14, memfd supports explicit hugetlb, however without
> > sealing.
>
> A little update here, 4.16 is likely to support sealing with hugetlb
> too (patches are in -mm tree). This should make memfd the prefered
> backend for sharing memory with a vhost-user backend.
>
> please review.
> thanks
I've queued patches 1-2 on machine-next. I plan to review the
rest soon. Sorry for the long delay.
--
Eduardo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-09 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-23 14:18 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 0/9] Add memfd memory backend Marc-André Lureau
2017-10-23 14:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 1/9] memfd: split qemu_memfd_alloc() Marc-André Lureau
2017-10-23 14:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 2/9] memfd: remove needless include Marc-André Lureau
2017-10-23 14:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 3/9] memfd: add error argument, instead of perror() Marc-André Lureau
2017-10-23 14:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 4/9] memfd: add hugetlb support Marc-André Lureau
2017-10-23 14:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 5/9] memfd: add hugetlbsize argument Marc-André Lureau
2017-10-23 14:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 6/9] Add memfd based hostmem Marc-André Lureau
2017-10-23 14:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 7/9] tests: keep compiling failing vhost-user tests Marc-André Lureau
2017-10-23 14:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 8/9] vhost-user-test: make read-guest-mem setup its own qemu Marc-André Lureau
2017-10-23 14:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 9/9] tests: use memfd in vhost-user-test Marc-André Lureau
2017-12-22 18:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 0/9] Add memfd memory backend Marc-André Lureau
2018-01-09 20:12 ` Eduardo Habkost [this message]
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