> Am 18.10.2020 um 14:50 schrieb Wei Yang <[email protected]>:
> 
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 02:52:54PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> virtio-mem currently only supports device block sizes that span at most
>> a single Linux memory block. For example, gigantic pages in the hypervisor
>> result on x86-64 in a device block size of 1 GiB - when the Linux memory
>> block size is 128 MiB, we cannot support such devices (we fail loading the
>> driver). Of course, we want to support any device block size in any Linux
>> VM.
>> 
>> Bigger device block sizes will become especially important once supporting
>> VFIO in QEMU - each device block has to be mapped separately, and the
>> maximum number of mappings for VFIO is 64k. So we usually want blocks in
>> the gigabyte range when wanting to grow the VM big.
>> 
>> This series:
>> - Performs some cleanups
>> - Factors out existing Sub Block Mode (SBM)
>> - Implements memory hot(un)plug in Big Block Mode (BBM)
>> 
>> I need one core-mm change, to make offline_and_remove_memory() eat bigger
>> chunks.
>> 
>> This series is based on "next-20201009" and can be found at:
>>    [email protected]:virtio-mem/linux.git virtio-mem-dbm-v1
>> 
> 
> I am trying to apply this patch set, while found I can't 'git fetch' this
> repo. Is there any other repo I would apply this patch set?
> 

Sorry I tool the wrong repo. It‘s on my github:

https://github.com/davidhildenbrand/linux/tree/virtio-mem-dbm-v1

> -- 
> Wei Yang
> Help you, Help me
> 
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