From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: qemu/hw/device-assignment: questions about msix_table_page
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:31:09 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49F6CCDD.2040804@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200904272203.59909.sheng@linux.intel.com>
Sheng Yang wrote:
>>> msix_table_page is a page, and mmap allocate memory on page boundary. So
>>> I use it.
>>>
>> Just wondering, would e.g. posix_memalign work here as well?
>>
>
> Um, I think it should work too.
>
I think qemu_malloc() would work just as well. The hardware never sees
the page, so it doesn't need to be aligned.
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-28 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20090427104117.GB29082@redhat.com>
2009-04-27 13:16 ` Sheng Yang
2009-04-27 13:51 ` qemu/hw/device-assignment: questions about msix_table_page Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-04-27 14:03 ` Sheng Yang
2009-04-27 14:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-04-27 14:30 ` Sheng Yang
2009-04-27 14:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-05-05 9:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-05-05 10:19 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-05-05 10:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-05-05 10:49 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-05-05 11:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-05-05 11:51 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-05-05 12:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-05-06 2:35 ` Sheng Yang
2009-05-06 7:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-05-06 8:17 ` Sheng Yang
2009-04-28 9:31 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-04-27 13:13 Michael S. Tsirkin
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