We support coordinated discarding of RAM using the RamDiscardManager for
the VFIO_TYPE1 iommus. Let's unlock support for coordinated discards,
keeping uncoordinated discards (e.g., via virtio-balloon) disabled if
possible.
This unlocks virtio-mem + vfio on x86-64. Note that vfio used via "nvme://"
by the block layer has to be implemented/unlocked separately. For now,
virtio-mem only supports x86-64; we don't restrict RamDiscardManager to
x86-64, though: arm64 and s390x are supposed to work as well, and we'll
test once unlocking virtio-mem support. The spapr IOMMUs will need special
care, to be tackled later, e.g.., once supporting virtio-mem.
Note: The block size of a virtio-mem device has to be set to sane sizes,
depending on the maximum hotplug size - to not run out of vfio mappings.
The default virtio-mem block size is usually in the range of a couple of
MBs. The maximum number of mapping is 64k, shared with other users.
Assume you want to hotplug 256GB using virtio-mem - the block size would
have to be set to at least 8 MiB (resulting in 32768 separate mappings).
Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Auger Eric <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: teawater <teawaterz@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Marek Kedzierski <mkedzier@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210413095531.25603-14-david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
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