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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com>, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for 2.1 2/2] memory-backend-file: improve error handling
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 09:47:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53B65C1F.5030304@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140704074320.GB2176@G08FNSTD100614.fnst.cn.fujitsu.com>

Il 04/07/2014 09:43, Hu Tao ha scritto:
> The memory size is rounded up to hpagesize when allocating memory, we
> can waste at most hpagesize-1 bytes memory. I don't think it's a
> problem.
>
> In the other side, do you think we should give an error in the case like
> -object memory-backend-ram,size=1111M(given 2M hpagesize)?

I think for gb pages it can make sense to waste a little memory (or even 
not so little, like if you have a 2.5 GB guest).

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-04  7:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-03  6:10 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for 2.1 0/2] bug fixs for memory backend Hu Tao
2014-07-03  6:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for 2.1 1/2] memory: introduce memory_region_init_ram_nofail() and memory_region_init_ram_ptr_nofail() Hu Tao
2014-07-03  6:51   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-07-04  2:50     ` Hu Tao
2014-07-03  6:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for 2.1 2/2] memory-backend-file: improve error handling Hu Tao
2014-07-03 12:33   ` Eric Blake
2014-07-04  2:56     ` Hu Tao
2014-07-04  4:05       ` Eric Blake
2014-07-04  7:43         ` Hu Tao
2014-07-04  7:47           ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-07-06  6:42             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-07-07  2:23               ` Hu Tao

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