Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/2] kvm "fake DAX" device

2018-10-13 Thread Pankaj Gupta
> > > > This patch series has implementation for "fake DAX". > > "fake DAX" is fake persistent memory(nvdimm) in guest > > which allows to bypass the guest page cache. This also > > implements a VIRTIO based asynchronous flush mechanism. > > Can we stop calling this 'fake DAX', because it

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/2] kvm "fake DAX" device

2018-10-13 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 10:00 PM Pankaj Gupta wrote: > > This patch series has implementation for "fake DAX". > "fake DAX" is fake persistent memory(nvdimm) in guest > which allows to bypass the guest page cache. This also > implements a VIRTIO based asynchronous flush mechanism. Can we stop

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/2] kvm "fake DAX" device

2018-10-12 Thread Pankaj Gupta
This patch series has implementation for "fake DAX". "fake DAX" is fake persistent memory(nvdimm) in guest which allows to bypass the guest page cache. This also implements a VIRTIO based asynchronous flush mechanism. Sharing guest kernel driver in this patchset with the changes