From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>, haozhong.zhang@intel.com
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@darnok.org>,
Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: [RFC XEN PATCH v2 00/15] Add vNVDIMM support to HVM domains
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 13:48:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170411174825.GD27166@char.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4hssFyGj5SRsiFbWjQZOToRaKhDtB01FA82ufo72PvUKg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 11:59:03AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> >> I don't think KVM has the same issue, but honestly I don't have the
> >> full mental model of how KVM supports mmap. I've at least been able to
> >> run a guest where the "pmem" is just dynamic page cache on the host
> >> side so the physical memory mapping is changing all the time due to
> >> swap. KVM does not have this third-party M2P mapping table to keep up
> >> to date so I assume it is just handled by the standard mmap support
> >> for establishing a guest physical address range and the standard
> >> mapping-invalidate + remap mechanism just works.
> >
> > Could it be possible to have an Xen driver that would listen on
> > these notifications and percolate those changes this driver. Then
> > this driver would make the appropiate hypercalls to update the M2P ?
> >
> > That would solve the 2/ I think?
>
> I think that could work. That sounds like userfaultfd support for DAX
> which is something I want to take a look at in the next couple kernel
> cycles for other reasons like live migration of guest-VMs with DAX
> mappings.
I would need to educate myself a bit more about this.
But I just realized we lost Haozhong on this thread. Adding him back in,
perhaps he has more experience with that.
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-20 0:09 [RFC XEN PATCH v2 00/15] Add vNVDIMM support to HVM domains Haozhong Zhang
2017-03-20 0:09 ` [RFC XEN PATCH v2 01/15] xen/common: add Kconfig item for pmem support Haozhong Zhang
2017-03-20 0:09 ` [RFC XEN PATCH v2 02/15] xen: probe pmem regions via ACPI NFIT Haozhong Zhang
2017-03-20 0:09 ` [RFC XEN PATCH v2 03/15] xen/x86: allow customizing locations of extended frametable & M2P Haozhong Zhang
2017-03-20 0:09 ` [RFC XEN PATCH v2 04/15] xen/x86: add XEN_SYSCTL_nvdimm_pmem_setup to setup host pmem Haozhong Zhang
2017-03-20 0:09 ` [RFC XEN PATCH v2 05/15] xen/x86: add XENMEM_populate_pmem_map to map host pmem pages to HVM domain Haozhong Zhang
2017-03-20 0:09 ` [RFC XEN PATCH v2 06/15] tools: reserve guest memory for ACPI from device model Haozhong Zhang
2017-03-20 0:09 ` [RFC XEN PATCH v2 07/15] tools/libacpi: expose the minimum alignment used by mem_ops.alloc Haozhong Zhang
2017-03-20 0:09 ` [RFC XEN PATCH v2 08/15] tools/libacpi: add callback acpi_ctxt.p2v to get a pointer from physical address Haozhong Zhang
2017-03-20 0:09 ` [RFC XEN PATCH v2 09/15] tools/libacpi: add callbacks to access XenStore Haozhong Zhang
2017-03-20 0:09 ` [RFC XEN PATCH v2 10/15] tools/libacpi: add a simple AML builder Haozhong Zhang
2017-03-20 0:09 ` [RFC XEN PATCH v2 11/15] tools/libacpi: load ACPI built by the device model Haozhong Zhang
2017-03-20 0:09 ` [RFC XEN PATCH v2 12/15] tools/libxl: build qemu options from xl vNVDIMM configs Haozhong Zhang
2017-03-20 0:09 ` [RFC XEN PATCH v2 13/15] tools/libxl: add support to map host pmem device to guests Haozhong Zhang
2017-03-20 0:09 ` [RFC XEN PATCH v2 14/15] tools/libxl: initiate pmem mapping via qmp callback Haozhong Zhang
2017-03-20 0:09 ` [RFC XEN PATCH v2 15/15] tools/misc: add xen-ndctl Haozhong Zhang
2017-03-30 4:11 ` Dan Williams
2017-03-30 7:58 ` Haozhong Zhang
2017-04-01 11:55 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-03-30 4:20 ` [RFC XEN PATCH v2 00/15] Add vNVDIMM support to HVM domains Dan Williams
2017-03-30 8:21 ` Haozhong Zhang
2017-03-30 16:01 ` Dan Williams
2017-04-01 11:54 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-04-01 15:45 ` Dan Williams
2017-04-04 17:00 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-04-04 17:16 ` Dan Williams
2017-04-04 17:34 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-04-04 17:59 ` Dan Williams
2017-04-04 18:05 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-04-04 18:59 ` Dan Williams
2017-04-11 17:48 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2017-04-01 12:24 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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