On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 12:39:16 +0530
Pankaj Gupta <> 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 <>
> ---
> 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.
