Nowadays memfd is the most convenient memory backend for vhost-user
devices. Compared to file-backend memory and hugepages, there is no need
to worry about configuring the location of the shm directory or
allocating hugepages.
Cc: Michal Prívozník <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Cc: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Provide an exmple in a place more visible than formatdomain.html.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
Using virtiofs without NUMA was implemented in v6.9.0-rc1~161 but
our kbase document only mentions QEMU version which may confuse
users.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Reflect in the virtiofs documentation that virtiofs can now be used
even without NUMA. While at it, be more precise where and why shared
memory is required.
Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
The heading overline should only be used for the overall document title,
any subsequent headings should be underline only.
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Add a document describing the usage of virtiofs.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
