On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 7:01 PM Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > This patch series adds DAX support to virtiofs filesystem. This allows > bypassing guest page cache and allows mapping host page cache directly > in guest address space. > > When a page of file is needed, guest sends a request to map that page > (in host page cache) in qemu address space. Inside guest this is > a physical memory range controlled by virtiofs device. And guest > directly maps this physical address range using DAX and hence gets > access to file data on host. > > This can speed up things considerably in many situations. Also this > can result in substantial memory savings as file data does not have > to be copied in guest and it is directly accessed from host page > cache. > > Most of the changes are limited to fuse/virtiofs. There are couple > of changes needed in generic dax infrastructure and couple of changes > in virtio to be able to access shared memory region. > > These patches apply on top of 5.6-rc4 and are also available here. > > https://github.com/rhvgoyal/linux/commits/vivek-04-march-2020 > > Any review or feedback is welcome. > [...] > drivers/dax/super.c | 3 +- > drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c | 32 + > drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern.c | 107 +++ > fs/dax.c | 66 +- > fs/fuse/dir.c | 2 + > fs/fuse/file.c | 1162 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++- That's a big addition to already big file.c. Maybe split dax specific code to dax.c? Can be a post series cleanup too. Thanks, Amir.
