From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
kirkland@canonical.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
ming.m.lin@intel.com, sheng.yang@intel.com,
Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>,
KVM General <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>,
Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
Fr??d??ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: KVM usability
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:57:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B9661D1.8040109@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B9660C6.4080405@redhat.com>
On 03/09/2010 08:52 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/09/2010 04:50 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> It's all in the openSUSE build service. The direct access URL (login
>>> required FWIW) is here:
>>>
>>> https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file?file=kvm-qemu-default-memsize.patch&package=kvm&project=Virtualization
>>>
>>>
>>> It merely changes DEFAULT_RAM_SIZE in vl.c from 128 to 384 for the
>>> "kvm" package.
>>
>> We should attempt to do three things with default ram size:
>>
>> 1) bump it up to a more reasonable number
>> 2) make it specified in the global default config
>> 3) make sure we can provide compatibility support for older machine
>> types
>
> It's really sad, the amount of code needed to change a number.
We don't do enough via a config. If we did, we could just have a 0.12
config version that got frozen over time.
So really, if we can make the mem readable by global config, and we can
have machine specific configs, it would simplify the problem in the
future so that we just had to bump a number.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-09 15:05 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <1267068445.1726.25.camel@localhost>
[not found] ` <1267089644.12790.74.camel@laptop>
2010-02-26 2:49 ` Enhance perf to support KVM Zhang, Yanmin
2010-02-26 9:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 9:53 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 10:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 10:47 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 11:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 11:44 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 12:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 12:54 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 13:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 13:57 ` Jes Sorensen
2010-02-26 14:04 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 14:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-26 15:06 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-02 16:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-03-02 17:12 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-03-02 17:20 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-03-02 17:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-02 17:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-07 14:17 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 18:33 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-27 10:56 ` KVM usability Ingo Molnar
2010-02-27 13:30 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-02-27 13:30 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2010-02-27 14:48 ` Ian Kirk
2010-02-27 15:32 ` Zachary Amsden
2010-02-27 17:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-01 15:33 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-01 16:48 ` Zachary Amsden
2010-03-01 17:41 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-03-01 18:29 ` Zachary Amsden
2010-03-01 20:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-01 21:45 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-01 22:06 ` Zachary Amsden
2010-03-02 0:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-02 0:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-02 2:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-02 8:39 ` Chris Webb
2010-03-07 18:42 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-02 10:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-07 9:35 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-07 9:56 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-03-07 10:11 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-07 18:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-07 15:14 ` Luca Barbieri
2010-03-07 18:16 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-07 18:01 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-03-07 18:15 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-07 18:53 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-03-07 19:05 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-07 18:25 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-01 9:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-01 15:36 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-01 15:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-01 15:42 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-02 1:12 ` Dustin Kirkland
2010-03-02 10:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-02 13:37 ` Nikolai K. Bochev
2010-03-02 14:22 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-03-02 14:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-07 9:22 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-02 14:37 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-02 14:52 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-03-02 14:56 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-02 15:13 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-03-04 20:00 ` Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
2010-03-04 20:13 ` Zachary Amsden
2010-03-04 20:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-04 22:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-05 7:44 ` Markus Armbruster
2010-03-07 11:25 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-01 21:12 ` Dustin Kirkland
2010-03-01 21:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-02 2:34 ` Alexander Graf
2010-03-02 2:36 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-09 13:32 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-09 14:32 ` Dustin Kirkland
2010-03-09 14:38 ` Alexander Graf
2010-03-09 14:50 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-09 14:52 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-09 14:57 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2010-03-09 17:11 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-09 17:27 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-09 17:30 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-09 14:49 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-09 14:54 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-02 3:02 ` Dustin Kirkland
2010-03-02 8:21 ` Chris Webb
2010-03-02 14:54 ` Dustin Kirkland
[not found] ` <428008581.20100302103400@eternallybored.org>
2010-03-07 11:35 ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-04 12:31 ` High CPU use of -usbdevice tablet (was Re: KVM usability) Chris Webb
2010-04-04 12:31 ` [Qemu-devel] " Chris Webb
2010-04-04 14:25 ` Paul Brook
2010-04-04 14:25 ` Paul Brook
2010-04-04 16:58 ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-04 16:58 ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-04 21:03 ` Paul Brook
2010-04-04 21:03 ` Paul Brook
2010-04-04 21:53 ` Paul Brook
2010-04-04 21:53 ` Paul Brook
2010-04-05 8:22 ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-05 8:22 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-03 2:57 ` KVM usability Ross Boylan
2010-03-03 8:55 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-03 15:42 ` Ross Boylan
2010-03-07 14:29 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 11:48 ` Enhance perf to support KVM Peter Zijlstra
2010-02-26 11:53 ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-26 20:17 ` Anthony Liguori
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