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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] docs/nvdimm: add example on persistent backend
From: |
Pankaj Gupta |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] docs/nvdimm: add example on persistent backend setup |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Jul 2019 06:17:31 -0400 (EDT) |
>
> Persistent backend setup requires some knowledge about nvdimm and ndctl
> tool. Some users report they may struggle to gather these knowledge and
> have difficulty to setup it properly.
>
> Here we provide two examples for persistent backend and gives the link
> to ndctl. By doing so, user could try it directly and do more
> investigation on persistent backend setup with ndctl.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <address@hidden>
> ---
> docs/nvdimm.txt | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/docs/nvdimm.txt b/docs/nvdimm.txt
> index b531cacd35..baba7a940d 100644
> --- a/docs/nvdimm.txt
> +++ b/docs/nvdimm.txt
> @@ -171,6 +171,32 @@ guest software that this vNVDIMM device contains a
> region that cannot
> accept persistent writes. In result, for example, the guest Linux
> NVDIMM driver, marks such vNVDIMM device as read-only.
>
> +Backend File Setup Example
> +..........................
> +
> +Here is two examples for how to setup these persistent backend on
> +linux, which leverages the tool ndctl [3].
> +
> +It is easy to setup DAX device backend file.
> +
> +A. DAX device
> +
> + ndctl create-namespace -f -e namespace0.0 -m devdax
> +
> +The /dev/dax0.0 could be used directly in "mem-path" option.
> +
> +For DAX file, it is more than creating the proper namespace. The
> +block device should be partitioned and mounted (with dax option).
> +
> +B. DAX file
> +
> + ndctl create-namespace -f -e namespace0.0 -m fsdax
> + (partition /dev/pmem0 with name pmem0p1)
> + mount -o dax /dev/pmem0p1 /mnt
> + (dd a file with proper size in /mnt)
This is not clear to me. why 'dd' file is required in /mnt?
You mean for creating a backend file?
> +
> +Then the new file in /mnt could be used in "mem-path" option.
> +
> NVDIMM Persistence
> ------------------
>
> @@ -212,3 +238,5 @@ References
>
> https://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/technical_work/final/NVMProgrammingModel_v1.2.pdf
> [2] Persistent Memory Development Kit (PMDK), formerly known as NVML
> project, home page:
> http://pmem.io/pmdk/
> +[3] ndctl-create-namespace - provision or reconfigure a namespace
> + http://pmem.io/ndctl/ndctl-create-namespace.html
> --
Looks good to me. Just a small comment above.
Other than that: Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta <address@hidden>
> 2.17.1
>
>
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