Re: [Invitation] bi-weekly guest_memfd upstream call on 2025-12-04

[<dan.j.williams@intel.com>]

David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) wrote:
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> This might be the last meeting this year: I will be traveling for LPC on 
> December 11 and December 18. Then, Christmas is already around the 
> corner and we'll skip the one on December 25. So we'll probably have our 
> next meeting then on January 8.

Hi David,

Great seeing you at LPC! Can I grab some time on the agenda to
brainstorm the next level of detail on the topic I briefly ran by you in
the hallway track? I.e. is there a path to decouple dependencies and
land some of the low level huge page support upstream while the
guest_memfd reworks for in place conversion and hugetlbfs backing
continue to mature?

As you said this at a minimum needs to be crippled / not production
worthy to maintain focus and momentum on the guest_memfd rework
completion. The observation that shifted my thinking is that, given the
timelines and remaining work, there are solid steps that the low level
implementations can be landing and maturing in advance of that
integration. All net progress for upstream.