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From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Oliver <oohall@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] mm/pmem: Add memblock based e820 platform driver
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 23:06:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4hbPTYkvzOjM7zYXgZ_7NnW4UJ0sUxP-fbCx4mjHDy1FA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2581eec7-ad1e-578b-d0cd-7076a4f88776@linux.ibm.com>

On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 10:17 PM, Aneesh Kumar K.V
<aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 07/07/2018 11:06 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
[..]
> What we need is the ability to run with fsdax on hypervisor other than KVM.

That sounds like a production use case? How can it be actual
persistent memory if the kernel is picking the physical address
backing the range?

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-09  6:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-06  8:29 [RFC PATCH 1/2] mm/nvidmm: Drop x86 dependency on nvdimm e820 device Aneesh Kumar K.V
2018-07-06  8:29 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] mm/pmem: Add memblock based e820 platform driver Aneesh Kumar K.V
2018-07-06 18:46   ` Randy Dunlap
2018-07-06 19:38   ` Dan Williams
2018-07-07  7:15     ` Oliver
2018-07-07 17:36       ` Dan Williams
2018-07-09  5:17         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2018-07-09  6:06           ` Dan Williams [this message]
2018-07-07  7:50   ` Oliver
2018-07-09  5:16     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V

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