From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Cc: Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com>,
"list@suse.de:PowerPC" <qemu-ppc@nongnu.org>,
QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] file ram alloc: fail if cannot preallocate
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 14:22:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53075321.6030505@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57F80552-CE67-411F-8263-35B84A3CEA54@suse.de>
Il 21/02/2014 14:02, Alexander Graf ha scritto:
> I think it makes sense to disable any fallback for -mem-path, so that
> it always only allocates RAM pages from the -mem-path pool. But this
> is a big change from how it used to work before and thus needs to be
> properly coordinated.
>
> Paolo, Peter, any thoughts here? Version 2.0 might be a good fit for
> such a change ;).
I agree it would be nice, but as Alexey said it would be best to only
require hugepage-backed memory for the bulk of RAM. So I'd prefer to
wait for memdev, and then we can just deprecate -mem-path and -mem-prealloc.
Paolo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-21 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-10 6:32 [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] file ram alloc: fail if cannot preallocate Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-02-21 4:57 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-02-21 8:57 ` Alexander Graf
2014-02-21 12:56 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-02-21 13:02 ` Alexander Graf
2014-02-21 13:04 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-02-21 13:10 ` Alexander Graf
2014-02-21 13:18 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-02-21 13:22 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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