On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 06:39:28PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Two guests on the same physical machine (or a guest and a host) have access 
> to the same set of physical addresses.  This might be an NV-DIMM, or it might 
> just be DRAM (for the purposes of reducing guest overhead).  The network 
> filesystem has been enhanced with a call to allow the client to ask the 
> server "What is the physical address for this range of bytes in this file?"
> 
> We don't want to use the guest pagecache here.  That's antithetical to the 
> second usage, and it's inefficient for the first usage.

And the answer is that you need a dax device for whatever memoery exposed
in this way, as it needs to show up in the memory map for example.
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