From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH QEMU] transparent hugepage support
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:17:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201003121817.05524.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100312174140.GV5677@random.random>
> > No particular preference. Or you could have .../page_sizes list all
> > available sizes, and have qemu take the first one (or last depending on
> > sort order).
>
> That would also work. Considering that the current transparent
> hugepage support won't support any more than 1 page, I think it's ok
> to call it hpage_size, the fact that amd/intel will add a 64k page
> size is purely hypothetical
It's only hypothetical on x86. Many other architectures already support this
(at least ARM, MIPS, IA64, SPARC).
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-12 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-11 15:14 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH QEMU] transparent hugepage support Andrea Arcangeli
2010-03-11 15:52 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-11 16:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-03-13 8:28 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-13 17:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-03-11 16:28 ` Paul Brook
2010-03-11 16:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-03-11 17:55 ` Paul Brook
2010-03-11 18:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-03-12 11:36 ` Paul Brook
2010-03-12 14:52 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-03-12 16:04 ` Paul Brook
2010-03-12 16:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-03-12 16:24 ` Paul Brook
2010-03-12 16:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-03-12 17:10 ` Paul Brook
2010-03-12 17:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-03-12 18:17 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2010-03-12 18:36 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-03-12 18:41 ` Paul Brook
2010-03-12 18:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-03-12 22:40 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-03-12 16:10 ` Paul Brook
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