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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V7 6/6] hostmem-file: add 'sync' option
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Yi Zhang |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V7 6/6] hostmem-file: add 'sync' option |
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Thu, 20 Dec 2018 11:03:12 +0800 |
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Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) |
On 2018-12-19 at 10:59:10 -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 05:10:18PM +0800, Yi Zhang wrote:
> > > > +
> > > > + - 'sync' option of memory-backend-file is not 'off', and
> > > > +
> > > > + - 'share' option of memory-backend-file is 'on'.
> > > > +
> > > > + - 'pmem' option of memory-backend-file is 'on'
> > > > +
> > >
> > > Wait isn't this what pmem was supposed to do?
> > > Doesn't it mean "persistent memory"?
> > pmem is a option for memory-backend-file, user should know the backend
> > is in host persistent memory, with this flags on, while there is a host
> > crash
> > or a power failures.
> >
> > [1] Qemu will take necessary operations to guarantee the persistence.
> > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/cover/944749/
> >
> > [2] Host kernel also take opretions to consistent filesystem metadata.
> > Add MAP_SYNC flags.
>
> OK so I'm a user. Can you educate me please?
We suppose an administrator should know it, what is the back-end region coming
from,
is it persistent? what is the font-end device is? a volatile dimm or an
nonvolatile dimm? then they can choice put the pmem=on[off] and sync=on[off].
If he didn't, we encourage that don't set these 2 flags.
> When should MAP_SYNC not
> be set? Are there any disadvantages (e.g. performance?)?
Not only the performance, sometimes like the front-end device is an
volatile ram, we don't wanna set such option although the backend is a
novolatile memory, if power lose, all of thing should lose in this ram.
>
> --
> MST
>
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V7 3/6] util/mmap-alloc: support MAP_SYNC in qemu_ram_mmap(), (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V7 4/6] util/mmap-alloc: Switch the RAM_SYNC flags to OnOffAuto, Zhang Yi, 2018/12/18
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V7 5/6] hostmem: add more information in error messages, Zhang Yi, 2018/12/18
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V7 6/6] hostmem-file: add 'sync' option, Zhang Yi, 2018/12/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V7 6/6] hostmem-file: add 'sync' option, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2018/12/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V7 6/6] hostmem-file: add 'sync' option, Yi Zhang, 2018/12/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V7 6/6] hostmem-file: add 'sync' option, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2018/12/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V7 6/6] hostmem-file: add 'sync' option,
Yi Zhang <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V7 6/6] hostmem-file: add 'sync' option, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2018/12/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V7 6/6] hostmem-file: add 'sync' option, Yi Zhang, 2018/12/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V7 6/6] hostmem-file: add 'sync' option, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2018/12/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V7 6/6] hostmem-file: add 'sync' option, Yi Zhang, 2018/12/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V7 6/6] hostmem-file: add 'sync' option, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2018/12/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V7 6/6] hostmem-file: add 'sync' option, Yi Zhang, 2018/12/24
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V7 0/6] nvdimm: support MAP_SYNC for memory-backend-file, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2018/12/18