Re: [PATCH v1 25/29] virtio-mem: Big Block Mode (BBM) memory hotplug

2020-10-19 Thread David Hildenbrand
On 19.10.20 04:26, Wei Yang wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 02:53:19PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: >> Currently, we do not support device block sizes that exceed the Linux >> memory block size. For example, having a device block size of 1 GiB (e.g., >> gigantic pages in the hypervisor) won't

Re: [PATCH v1 25/29] virtio-mem: Big Block Mode (BBM) memory hotplug

2020-10-18 Thread Wei Yang
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 02:53:19PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: >Currently, we do not support device block sizes that exceed the Linux >memory block size. For example, having a device block size of 1 GiB (e.g., >gigantic pages in the hypervisor) won't work with 128 MiB Linux memory >blocks. >

Re: [PATCH v1 25/29] virtio-mem: Big Block Mode (BBM) memory hotplug

2020-10-16 Thread David Hildenbrand
On 16.10.20 11:38, Wei Yang wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 02:53:19PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: >> Currently, we do not support device block sizes that exceed the Linux >> memory block size. For example, having a device block size of 1 GiB (e.g., >> gigantic pages in the hypervisor) won't

Re: [PATCH v1 25/29] virtio-mem: Big Block Mode (BBM) memory hotplug

2020-10-16 Thread Wei Yang
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 02:53:19PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: >Currently, we do not support device block sizes that exceed the Linux >memory block size. For example, having a device block size of 1 GiB (e.g., >gigantic pages in the hypervisor) won't work with 128 MiB Linux memory >blocks. >