Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] vhost: memslot handling improvements

[Igor Mammedov]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2023 16:36:55 +0100
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:

> Following up on my previous work to make virtio-mem consume multiple
> memslots dynamically [1] that requires precise accounting between used vs.
> reserved memslots, I realized that vhost makes this extra hard by
> filtering out some memory region sections (so they don't consume a
> memslot) in the vhost-user case, which messes up the whole memslot
> accounting.
> 
> This series fixes what I found to be broken and prepares for more work on
> [1]. Further, it cleanes up the merge checks that I consider unnecessary.

Acked-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>

> 
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211027124531.57561-8-david@redhat.com
> 
> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
> Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
> 
> v1 -> v2:
> - "vhost: Rework memslot filtering and fix "used_memslot" tracking"
> -- New approach: keep filtering, but make filtering less generic and
>    track separately. This should keep any existing setups working.
> - "softmmu/physmem: Fixup qemu_ram_block_from_host() documentation"
> -- As requested by Igor
> 
> David Hildenbrand (3):
>   vhost: Rework memslot filtering and fix "used_memslot" tracking
>   vhost: Remove vhost_backend_can_merge() callback
>   softmmu/physmem: Fixup qemu_ram_block_from_host() documentation
> 
>  hw/virtio/vhost-user.c            | 21 ++---------
>  hw/virtio/vhost-vdpa.c            |  1 -
>  hw/virtio/vhost.c                 | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  include/exec/cpu-common.h         | 15 ++++++++
>  include/hw/virtio/vhost-backend.h |  9 +----
>  softmmu/physmem.c                 | 17 ---------
>  6 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
>