On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 05:48:14AM -0400, Pankaj Gupta wrote: > > > On 24/09/2018 07:45, David Gibson wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 12:32:38PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: > > >> From: Pankaj Gupta <pagu...@redhat.com> > > >> > > >> This is the current protoype of virtio-pmem. Support will require > > >> machine changes for the architectures that will support it, so it will > > >> not yet be compiled. > > >> > > >> Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagu...@redhat.com> > > >> [ MemoryDevice/MemoryRegion changes, cleanups, addr property "memaddr", > > >> split up patches ] > > >> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <da...@redhat.com> > > > > > > Reviewed-by: David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au> > > > > > > Seems generally sane. Is there a (craft?) virtio-pmem spec around to > > > see what this is actually trying to implement? > > > > I am not aware of any. The first goal is to get something implemented > > that works and doesn't break important concepts. E.g. hotplugging memory > > devices was one of these concepts that Igor saw as a potential problem > > for getting virtio-pmem upstream. > > > > But maybe Pankaj already has some draft version of a spec lying around. > > I have created document but no official spec. Project idea is shared here [1] > and kernel part of series [2]. I will create a spec and share. > > [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg153095.html > [2] https://marc.info/?l=kvm&m=153572224719212&w=2
Ok. Because this creates a new interface we could be working with for
a while, I think we do need at least a semi-formal spec - and to get
some review of that spec - before we merge.
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