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SubjectRe: [PATCH v1 00/29] virtio-mem: Big Block Mode (BBM)
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 02:52:54PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>virtio-mem currently only supports device block sizes that span at most
>a single Linux memory block. For example, gigantic pages in the hypervisor
>result on x86-64 in a device block size of 1 GiB - when the Linux memory
>block size is 128 MiB, we cannot support such devices (we fail loading the
>driver). Of course, we want to support any device block size in any Linux
>VM.
>
>Bigger device block sizes will become especially important once supporting
>VFIO in QEMU - each device block has to be mapped separately, and the
>maximum number of mappings for VFIO is 64k. So we usually want blocks in
>the gigabyte range when wanting to grow the VM big.
>
>This series:
>- Performs some cleanups
>- Factors out existing Sub Block Mode (SBM)
>- Implements memory hot(un)plug in Big Block Mode (BBM)
>
>I need one core-mm change, to make offline_and_remove_memory() eat bigger
>chunks.
>
>This series is based on "next-20201009" and can be found at:
> git@gitlab.com:virtio-mem/linux.git virtio-mem-dbm-v1
>

I am trying to apply this patch set, while found I can't 'git fetch' this
repo. Is there any other repo I would apply this patch set?

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Wei Yang
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