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Is there a way to >>>>>> prevent fallocate() from reserving full guest memory? >>>>> >>>>> Isn't the pinning being handled by the corresponding host memory backend with mmu > notifier and architecture support while doing the memory operations e.g page> migration and swapping/reclaim (not supported currently AFAIU). But yes, we need> to allocate entire guest memory with the new flags MEMFILE_F_{UNMOVABLE, UNRECLAIMABLE etc}. >>>> >>>> That is correct, but the question is when does the memory allocated, as these flags are set, >>>> memory is neither moved nor reclaimed. In current scenario, if I start a 32GB guest, all 32GB is >>>> allocated. >>> >>> I guess so if guest memory is private by default. >>> >>> Other option would be to allocate memory as shared by default and >>> handle on demand allocation and RMPUPDATE with page state change event. But still that would be done at guest boot time, IIUC. >> >> Sorry! Don't want to hijack the other thread so replying here. >> >> I thought the question is for SEV SNP. For SEV, maybe the hypercall with the page state information can be used to allocate memory as we use it or something like quota based memory allocation (just thinking). > > But all this would have considerable performance overhead (if by default memory is shared) and used mostly at boot time. > So, preallocating memory (default memory private) seems better approach for both SEV & SEV SNP with later page management (pinning, reclaim) taken care by host memory backend & architecture together. I am not sure how will pre-allocating memory help, even if guest would not use full memory it will be pre-allocated. Which if I understand correctly is not expected. Regards Nikunj