Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/11] pc-dimm: factor out MemoryDevice

[Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 08:40:59PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 06:51:15PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > Right now we can only map PCDIMM/NVDIMM into guest address space. In the
> > future, we might want to do the same for virtio devices - e.g.
> > virtio-pmem or virtio-mem. Especially, they should be able to live side
> > by side to each other.
> > 
> > E.g. the virto based memory devices regions will not be exposed via ACPI
> > and friends. They will be detected just like other virtio devices and
> > indicate the applicable memory region. This makes it possible to also use
> > them on architectures without memory device detection support (e.g. s390x).
> > 
> > Let's factor out the memory device code into a MemoryDevice interface.
> > 
> > Please note that the "slots" assignment code is not relevant for memory
> > devices that will not be exposed via ACPI or similar. That's why that
> > part won't be exposed. KVM/vhost "slots" for memory regions are still
> > necessary but don't have to be manually specified (e.g. the slot number
> > doesn't mather).
> > 
> > So we are basically converting the hotplug memory region to a memory device
> > region. I have patches that also set up such a region for s390x.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> 
> Who's merging this? Eduardo?

I just queued it.  Thanks!

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Eduardo