Similar to VFIO, vDPA will go ahead an map+pin all guest memory. Memory
that used to be discarded will get re-populated and if we
discard+re-access memory after mapping+pinning, the pages mapped into the
vDPA IOMMU will go out of sync with the actual pages mapped into the user
space page tables.
Set discarding of RAM broken such that:
- virtio-mem and vhost-vdpa run mutually exclusive
- virtio-balloon is inhibited and no memory discards will get issued
In the future, we might be able to support coordinated discarding of RAM
as used by virtio-mem and already supported by vfio via the
RamDiscardManager.
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Cindy Lu <lulu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
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Unfortuantely, v1 never got picked up no matter how "hard" I tried to
ping :)
v1 -> v2:
- Add ack from Jason
- Extend patch description now that RamDiscardManager is upstream.
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hw/virtio/vhost-vdpa.c | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)