Re: [PATCH v3] add virtio-pmem device specification

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 12:39:16 +0530
Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com> wrote:

> This patch proposes a virtio specification for new
> virtio pmem device. Virtio pmem is a paravirtualized
> device which solves two problems:
> 
> - Provides emulation of persistent memory on host regular
>   (non NVDIMM) storage.
> - Allows the guest to bypass the page cache.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com>
> ---
> This is changed version from previous v2 [1], as per suggestions by
> cornelia. Incorporated v2 changes suggested by Stefan, Michael &
> Cornerlia in RFC[2].
> 
> [1] https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/virtio-dev/201907/msg00007.html
> [2] https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/virtio-dev/201903/msg00083.html
> 
>  conformance.tex |  22 ++++++++++--
>  content.tex     |   1 +
>  virtio-pmem.tex | 109 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 130 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 virtio-pmem.tex
> 

This looks good from my perspective now; but review from someone more
familiar with pmem per se would be good as well.