From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: aarcange@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, gleb@redhat.com,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch 2/2] i386: pc: align gpa<->hpa on 1GB boundary
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 23:53:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <526AF64E.6040404@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131025195032.GA6391@amt.cnet>
Il 25/10/2013 20:50, Marcelo Tosatti ha scritto:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 09:52:34AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Because offsets are zero, and lengths match the RAM block lengths, you
>> do not need any complication with aliasing. This still has to be done
>> only for new machine types.
>
> Not possible because you just wasted holesize bytes (if number of
> additional bytes due to huge page alignment is smaller than holesize, a
> new hugepage is required, which is not acceptable).
Ok. Thanks for explaining---the patch seems good with the proper
compatibility option in the machine type. Please run the
guest_memory_dump_analysis test in autotest too.
> Is there a tree the new machine types can live until 1.8 opens up?
>
> Can you pick up the MAP_POPULATE patch?
Yes, I can pick that one up next week.
Michael is usually gathering hw/i386/pc* patches in his PCI tree, you
can Cc him on v2 of this one.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-25 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-24 21:11 [Qemu-devel] [patch 0/2] align >4GB guest RAM to a 1GB boundary, in case of 1GB-sized hugetlbfs Marcelo Tosatti
2013-10-24 21:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [patch 1/2] exec: add qemu_get_ram_hpagesize Marcelo Tosatti
2013-10-24 21:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [patch 2/2] i386: pc: align gpa<->hpa on 1GB boundary Marcelo Tosatti
2013-10-24 21:55 ` Peter Maydell
2013-10-24 22:48 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-10-24 23:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-25 4:58 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-10-25 8:52 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-25 19:50 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-10-25 22:53 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-10-30 11:07 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-10-30 11:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-25 9:57 ` igor Mammedov
2013-10-25 13:34 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-10-27 15:20 ` igor Mammedov
2013-10-28 14:04 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-10-28 14:20 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-10-29 18:00 ` Igor Mammedov
2013-10-29 21:21 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-10-30 8:48 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-10-30 18:30 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-10-29 18:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] pc: align gpa<->hpa on 1GB boundary by splitting RAM on several regions Igor Mammedov
2013-10-29 21:38 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-10-30 16:49 ` Igor Mammedov
2013-10-30 18:51 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-10-30 19:03 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-10-30 19:56 ` Igor Mammedov
2013-10-30 23:44 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-11-07 15:25 ` Igor Mammedov
2013-10-30 19:31 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-10-30 20:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-11-06 1:49 ` [Qemu-devel] i386: pc: align gpa<->hpa on 1GB boundary (v2) Marcelo Tosatti
2013-11-06 1:55 ` [Qemu-devel] i386: pc: align gpa<->hpa on 1GB boundary (v3) Marcelo Tosatti
2013-11-06 11:59 ` Igor Mammedov
2013-11-06 12:07 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-11-06 12:22 ` Igor Mammedov
2013-11-06 12:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-11-06 21:31 ` [Qemu-devel] i386: pc: align gpa<->hpa on 1GB boundary (v4) Marcelo Tosatti
2013-11-06 21:40 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-11-06 21:53 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-11-06 22:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-11-06 22:24 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-11-07 15:24 ` Igor Mammedov
2013-11-07 21:53 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-11-10 20:47 ` [Qemu-devel] i386: pc: align gpa<->hpa on 1GB boundary (v5) Marcelo Tosatti
2013-11-12 12:45 ` Igor Mammedov
2013-11-12 20:32 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-11-12 21:16 ` [Qemu-devel] i386: pc: align gpa<->hpa on 1GB boundary (v6) Marcelo Tosatti
2013-11-13 13:59 ` Igor Mammedov
2013-11-13 17:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
[not found] ` <20131113195832.GA29433@amt.cnet>
2013-11-13 20:39 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-11-13 21:49 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-11-13 19:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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