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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] virtio-mem: paravirtualized memory
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On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 11:15:18AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 29.03.20 14:42, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 06:14:12PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> >> This series is based on latest linux-next. The patches are located at:
> >>     https://github.com/davidhildenbrand/linux.git virtio-mem-v2
> >>
> >> I now have acks for all !virtio-mem changes. I'll be happy to get review
> >> feedback, testing reports, etc. for the virtio-mem changes. If there are
> >> no further comments, I guess this is good to go as a v1 soon.
> > 
> > I'd like to queue it for merge after the release. If you feel it's ready
> > please ping me after the release to help make sure it didn't get
> > dropped.  I see there were some reports about people having trouble
> > using this, pls keep working on this meanwhile.
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> I think this is ready to go as a first version. There are a couple of
> future work items related to kexec/kdump:
> - Teach kexec-tools/kexec_file_load() to not place the kexec
>   kernel/initrd onto virtio-mem added memory.
> - Teach kexec-tools/kdump to consider a bigger number of memory
>   resources for dumping.
> 
> In general, as virtio-mem adds a lot of memory resources, we might want
> to tweak performance in that area as well. Future stuff.
> 
> So I suggest queuing this. If you need a resend, please let me know.
> 
> Cheers!

Thanks!
I'll queue it for merge after the release. If possible please ping me
after the release to help make sure it didn't get dropped.


> -- 
> Thanks,
> 
> David / dhildenb