From: "Zhang, Haozhong" <haozhong.zhang@intel.com>
To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
"Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>,
Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>,
Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC Design Doc] Add vNVDIMM support for Xen
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 15:53:16 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160202075316.GJ6293@hz-desktop.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AADFC41AFE54684AB9EE6CBC0274A5D15F794131@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com>
On 02/02/16 15:48, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > From: Zhang, Haozhong
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2016 3:39 PM
> >
> > > btw, how is persistency guaranteed in KVM/QEMU, cross guest
> > > power off/on? I guess since Qemu process is killed the allocated pmem
> > > will be freed so you may switch to file-backed method to keep
> > > persistency (however copy would take time for large pmem trunk). Or
> > > will you find some way to keep pmem managed separated from qemu
> > > qemu life-cycle (then pmem is not efficiently reused)?
> > >
> >
> > It all depends on guests themselves. clwb/clflushopt/pcommit
> > instructions are exposed to guest that are used by guests to make
> > writes to pmem persistent.
> >
>
> I meant from guest p.o.v, a range of pmem should be persistent
> cross VM power on/off, i.e. the content needs to be maintained
> somewhere so guest can get it at next power on...
>
> Thanks
> Kevin
It's just like what we do for guest disk: as long as we always assign
the same host pmem device or the same files on file systems on a host
pmem device to the guest, the guest can find its last data on pmem.
Haozhong
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-02 7:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 121+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-01 5:44 [RFC Design Doc] Add vNVDIMM support for Xen Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-01 18:25 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-02-02 3:27 ` Tian, Kevin
2016-02-02 3:44 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-02 11:09 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-02-02 6:33 ` Tian, Kevin
2016-02-02 7:39 ` Zhang, Haozhong
2016-02-02 7:48 ` Tian, Kevin
2016-02-02 7:53 ` Zhang, Haozhong [this message]
2016-02-02 8:03 ` Tian, Kevin
2016-02-02 8:49 ` Zhang, Haozhong
2016-02-02 19:01 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-02-02 17:11 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-02-03 7:00 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-03 9:13 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-03 14:09 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-02-03 14:23 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-05 14:40 ` Ross Philipson
2016-02-06 1:43 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-06 16:17 ` Ross Philipson
2016-02-03 12:02 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-02-03 13:11 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-03 14:20 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-02-04 3:10 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-03 15:16 ` George Dunlap
2016-02-03 15:22 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-02-03 15:35 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-02-03 15:35 ` George Dunlap
2016-02-04 2:55 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-04 12:24 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-02-15 3:16 ` Zhang, Haozhong
2016-02-16 11:14 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-02-16 12:55 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-17 9:03 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-04 7:30 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-16 12:55 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-16 13:13 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-16 13:16 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-16 13:55 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-16 14:23 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-16 14:55 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-16 15:23 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-17 8:58 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-17 11:04 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-17 12:44 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-17 12:59 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-17 13:29 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-17 13:52 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-17 14:00 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-17 14:21 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-29 8:47 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-29 9:11 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-29 10:10 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-29 10:49 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-08 5:02 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-04-08 15:52 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-12 8:45 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-04-21 5:09 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-04-21 7:04 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-22 2:36 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-04-22 8:24 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-22 10:16 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-04-22 10:53 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-22 12:26 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-04-22 12:36 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-22 12:54 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-04-22 13:22 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-17 13:32 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-02-03 15:47 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-02-04 2:36 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-15 9:04 ` Zhang, Haozhong
2016-02-02 19:15 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-02-03 8:28 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-03 9:18 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-03 12:22 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-03 12:38 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-03 12:49 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-03 14:30 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-02-03 14:39 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-15 8:43 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-15 11:07 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-17 9:01 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-17 9:08 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-18 7:42 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-19 2:14 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-01 7:39 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-01 18:33 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-01 18:49 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-02 7:14 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-02 13:03 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-04 2:20 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-08 9:15 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-08 9:27 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-09 12:22 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-09 16:17 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-10 3:27 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-17 11:05 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-17 13:37 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-17 13:56 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-17 14:22 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-17 14:12 ` Xu, Quan
2016-03-17 14:22 ` Zhang, Haozhong
2016-03-07 20:53 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-08 5:50 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-18 17:17 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-24 13:28 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-24 14:00 ` Ross Philipson
2016-02-24 16:42 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-24 17:50 ` Ross Philipson
2016-02-24 14:24 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-24 15:48 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-24 16:54 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-28 14:48 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-29 9:01 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-29 9:45 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-29 10:12 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-29 11:52 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-29 12:04 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-29 12:22 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-01 13:51 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-01 15:04 ` Jan Beulich
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