@Andrew, can we have an ack for patch #27, so that one can go via the vhost tree for 5.11? --- virtio-mem currently only supports device block sizes that span at most a single Linux memory block. For example, gigantic pages in the hypervisor result on x86-64 in a device block size of 1 GiB - when the Linux memory block size is 128 MiB, we cannot support such devices (we fail loading the driver). Of course, we want to support any device block size in any Linux VM. Bigger device block sizes will become especially important once supporting VFIO in QEMU - each device block has to be mapped separately, and the maximum number of mappings for VFIO is 64k. So we usually want blocks in the gigabyte range when wanting to grow the VM big. Patch #1 - #10 are cleanups and optimizations Patch #11 - #24 are refactorings to prepare for BBM Patch #25 - #29 implement BBM, including one mm/memory_hotplug extension This series is based on latest linus/master and can be found at: git@xxxxxxxxxx:davidhildenbrand/linux.git virtio-mem-bbm-v2 v1 -> v2: - Code wise, the only bigger change is using an union for sbm/bbm state - Reworked some subjects/patch descriptions - Reshuffled patches to make reviweing easier, and to have cleanups+optimizations before all refactorings - "virtio-mem: more precise calculation in virtio_mem_mb_state_prepare_next_mb()" -- Changed subject -- Avoid two local variables David Hildenbrand (29): virtio-mem: determine nid only once using memory_add_physaddr_to_nid() virtio-mem: more precise calculation in virtio_mem_mb_state_prepare_next_mb() virtio-mem: simplify MAX_ORDER - 1 / pageblock_order handling virtio-mem: drop rc2 in virtio_mem_mb_plug_and_add() virtio-mem: use "unsigned long" for nr_pages when fake onlining/offlining virtio-mem: factor out calculation of the bit number within the subblock bitmap virtio-mem: print debug messages from virtio_mem_send_*_request() virtio-mem: factor out fake-offlining into virtio_mem_fake_offline() virtio-mem: factor out handling of fake-offline pages in memory notifier virtio-mem: retry fake-offlining via alloc_contig_range() on ZONE_MOVABLE virtio-mem: generalize check for added memory virtio-mem: generalize virtio_mem_owned_mb() virtio-mem: generalize virtio_mem_overlaps_range() virtio-mem: drop last_mb_id virtio-mem: don't always trigger the workqueue when offlining memory virtio-mem: generalize handling when memory is getting onlined deferred virito-mem: document Sub Block Mode (SBM) virtio-mem: memory block states are specific to Sub Block Mode (SBM) virito-mem: subblock states are specific to Sub Block Mode (SBM) virtio-mem: nb_sb_per_mb and subblock_size are specific to Sub Block Mode (SBM) virtio-mem: memory block ids are specific to Sub Block Mode (SBM) virito-mem: existing (un)plug functions are specific to Sub Block Mode (SBM) virtio-mem: memory notifier callbacks are specific to Sub Block Mode (SBM) virtio-mem: factor out adding/removing memory from Linux virtio-mem: Big Block Mode (BBM) memory hotplug virtio-mem: allow to force Big Block Mode (BBM) and set the big block size mm/memory_hotplug: extend offline_and_remove_memory() to handle more than one memory block virtio-mem: Big Block Mode (BBM) - basic memory hotunplug virtio-mem: Big Block Mode (BBM) - safe memory hotunplug drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c | 1789 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- mm/memory_hotplug.c | 105 +- 2 files changed, 1376 insertions(+), 518 deletions(-) -- 2.26.2 _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization