From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf0-f200.google.com (mail-pf0-f200.google.com [209.85.192.200]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9C676B0038 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2017 03:16:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pf0-f200.google.com with SMTP id 76so731075pfr.3 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:16:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org. [65.50.211.133]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b1si349188pgq.241.2017.10.17.00.16.40 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:16:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:16:33 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] KVM: add virtio-pmem driver Message-ID: <20171017071633.GA9207@infradead.org> References: <20171012155027.3277-1-pagupta@redhat.com> <20171012155027.3277-3-pagupta@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171012155027.3277-3-pagupta@redhat.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Pankaj Gupta Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, jack@suse.cz, stefanha@redhat.com, dan.j.williams@intel.com, riel@redhat.com, haozhong.zhang@intel.com, nilal@redhat.com, kwolf@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, ross.zwisler@intel.com, david@redhat.com, xiaoguangrong.eric@gmail.com I think this driver is at entirely the wrong level. If you want to expose pmem to a guest with flushing assist do it as pmem, and not a block driver. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org