Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] virtio-mem: paravirtualized memory

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Tue Apr 14 2020 - 05:16:06 EST


On 29.03.20 14:42, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 06:14:12PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> This series is based on latest linux-next. The patches are located at:
>> https://github.com/davidhildenbrand/linux.git virtio-mem-v2
>>
>> I now have acks for all !virtio-mem changes. I'll be happy to get review
>> feedback, testing reports, etc. for the virtio-mem changes. If there are
>> no further comments, I guess this is good to go as a v1 soon.
>
> I'd like to queue it for merge after the release. If you feel it's ready
> please ping me after the release to help make sure it didn't get
> dropped. I see there were some reports about people having trouble
> using this, pls keep working on this meanwhile.

Hi Michael,

I think this is ready to go as a first version. There are a couple of
future work items related to kexec/kdump:
- Teach kexec-tools/kexec_file_load() to not place the kexec
kernel/initrd onto virtio-mem added memory.
- Teach kexec-tools/kdump to consider a bigger number of memory
resources for dumping.

In general, as virtio-mem adds a lot of memory resources, we might want
to tweak performance in that area as well. Future stuff.

So I suggest queuing this. If you need a resend, please let me know.

Cheers!

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb