Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/16] implement vNVDIMM

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On 02/07/2015 11:20, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > Currently, the NVDIMM driver has been merged into upstream Linux Kernel and
> > this patchset tries to enable it in virtualization field
> 
> From a device model perspective, have you checked whether it makes sense
> to integrate nvdimms into the pc-dimm and hostmem code that is used for
> memory hotplug and NUMA?
> 
> The NVDIMM device in your patches is a completely new TYPE_DEVICE so it
> doesn't share any interfaces or code with existing memory devices.
> Maybe that is the right solution here because NVDIMMs have different
> characteristics, but I'm not sure.

The hostmem code should definitely be shared, e.g. by adding a new
"file" property to the memory-backend-file class.  ivshmem can also use
it---CCing Marc-André.

I don't know about the pc-dimm devices.  If the NVDIMM devices can do
_OST and can be hotplugged, then the answer is probably yes.

Paolo
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