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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device
From: |
Pankaj Gupta |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Jan 2019 02:15:40 -0500 (EST) |
> > Until you have images (and hence host page cache) shared between
> > multiple guests. People will want to do this, because it means they
> > only need a single set of pages in host memory for executable
> > binaries rather than a set of pages per guest. Then you have
> > multiple guests being able to detect residency of the same set of
> > pages. If the guests can then, in any way, control eviction of the
> > pages from the host cache, then we have a guest-to-guest information
> > leak channel.
>
> I don't think we should ever be considering something that would allow a
> guest to evict page's from the host's pagecache [1]. The guest should
> be able to kick its own references to the host's pagecache out of its
> own pagecache, but not be able to influence whether the host or another
> guest has a read-only mapping cached.
>
> [1] Unless the guest is allowed to modify the host's file; obviously
> truncation, holepunching, etc are going to evict pages from the host's
> page cache.
This is so correct. Guest does not not evict host page cache pages directly.
In case of virtio-pmem & DAX, guest clears guest page cache exceptional entries.
Its solely decision of host to take action on the host page cache pages.
In case of virtio-pmem, guest does not modify host file directly i.e don't
perform hole punch & truncation operation directly on host file.
Thanks,
Pankaj
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device, Jan Kara, 2019/01/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device, Pankaj Gupta, 2019/01/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device, Dan Williams, 2019/01/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device, Pankaj Gupta, 2019/01/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device, Jan Kara, 2019/01/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device, Pankaj Gupta, 2019/01/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device, Pankaj Gupta, 2019/01/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device, Dave Chinner, 2019/01/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device, Matthew Wilcox, 2019/01/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device, Dave Chinner, 2019/01/13
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device, Dave Chinner, 2019/01/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device, Dan Williams, 2019/01/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device, Dave Chinner, 2019/01/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2019/01/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device, Pankaj Gupta, 2019/01/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device, Pankaj Gupta, 2019/01/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/5] kvm "virtio pmem" device, Dave Chinner, 2019/01/15