Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] ivshmem: allow the sharing of hugepages

[Andrew Jones]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 04:33:23PM +0300, Pavel Fedin wrote:
> This patch permits to share memory areas that do not specifically belong to
> /dev/shm. In such case, the file must be already present when launching qemu.
> A new parameter 'file' has been added to specify the file to use.
> 
> A use case for this patch is sharing huge pages available through a
> hugetlbfs mountpoint.

ivshmem is getting a big reboot right now. See this series
"[PATCH v5 00/48] ivshmem improvements". Part of that work
is to better support sharing huge pages. Please look at that
series first, and if there's still something missing, then
additional patches to that series should be posted.

Thanks,
drew