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Tsirkin" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Peter Xu , "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" , Auger Eric , Pankaj Gupta , Paolo Bonzini , teawater , Jonathan Cameron , Igor Mammedov , Marek Kedzierski Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 15:03:43 +0100 David Hildenbrand wrote: > On 08.02.21 09:28, David Hildenbrand wrote: > > On 27.01.21 13:45, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:05:29PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: > >>> A virtio-mem device manages a memory region in guest physical address > >>> space, represented as a single (currently large) memory region in QEMU, > >>> mapped into system memory address space. Before the guest is allowed to use > >>> memory blocks, it must coordinate with the hypervisor (plug blocks). After > >>> a reboot, all memory is usually unplugged - when the guest comes up, it > >>> detects the virtio-mem device and selects memory blocks to plug (based on > >>> resize requests from the hypervisor). > >>> > >>> Memory hot(un)plug consists of (un)plugging memory blocks via a virtio-mem > >>> device (triggered by the guest). When unplugging blocks, we discard the > >>> memory - similar to memory balloon inflation. In contrast to memory > >>> ballooning, we always know which memory blocks a guest may actually use - > >>> especially during a reboot, after a crash, or after kexec (and during > >>> hibernation as well). Guests agreed to not access unplugged memory again, > >>> especially not via DMA. > >>> > >>> The issue with vfio is, that it cannot deal with random discards - for this > >>> reason, virtio-mem and vfio can currently only run mutually exclusive. > >>> Especially, vfio would currently map the whole memory region (with possible > >>> only little/no plugged blocks), resulting in all pages getting pinned and > >>> therefore resulting in a higher memory consumption than expected (turning > >>> virtio-mem basically useless in these environments). > >>> > >>> To make vfio work nicely with virtio-mem, we have to map only the plugged > >>> blocks, and map/unmap properly when plugging/unplugging blocks (including > >>> discarding of RAM when unplugging). We achieve that by using a new notifier > >>> mechanism that communicates changes. > >> > >> series > >> > >> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin > >> > >> virtio bits > >> > >> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin > >> > >> This needs to go through vfio tree I assume. > > > > Thanks Michael. > > > > @Alex, what are your suggestions? > > Gentle ping. Sorry for the delay. It looks to me like patches 1, 8, and 9 are Memory API that are still missing an Ack from Paolo. I'll toss in my A-b+R-b for patches 6 and 7. I don't see that this necessarily needs to go in through vfio, I'm more than happy if someone else wants to grab it. Thanks, Alex