On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 05:42:54AM +, Kasireddy, Vivek wrote:
> > > + } else {
> > > + page =
> > shmem_read_mapping_page(mapping, pgoff + pgidx);
> >
> > It may not matter to your users, but the semantics for hugetlb and shmem
> > pages is different. h
On 07/18/23 01:26, Vivek Kasireddy wrote:
> A user or admin can configure a VMM (Qemu) Guest's memory to be
> backed by hugetlb pages for various reasons. However, a Guest OS
> would still allocate (and pin) buffers that are backed by regular
> 4k sized pages. In order to map these buffers and crea
Hi Mike,
>
> On 07/18/23 01:26, Vivek Kasireddy wrote:
> > A user or admin can configure a VMM (Qemu) Guest's memory to be
> > backed by hugetlb pages for various reasons. However, a Guest OS
> > would still allocate (and pin) buffers that are backed by regular
> > 4k sized pages. In order to map
On 18.07.23 10:26, Vivek Kasireddy wrote:
A user or admin can configure a VMM (Qemu) Guest's memory to be
backed by hugetlb pages for various reasons. However, a Guest OS
would still allocate (and pin) buffers that are backed by regular
4k sized pages. In order to map these buffers and create dma
A user or admin can configure a VMM (Qemu) Guest's memory to be
backed by hugetlb pages for various reasons. However, a Guest OS
would still allocate (and pin) buffers that are backed by regular
4k sized pages. In order to map these buffers and create dma-bufs
for them on the Host, we first need to
