From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Anyone seeing huge slowdown launching qemu with Linux 2.6.35? Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:50:15 +0300 Message-ID: <4C5848C7.3090806@redhat.com> References: <20100803111306.GA21886@amd.home.annexia.org> <20100803113302.GT24773@redhat.com> <20100803121000.GV13789@amd.home.annexia.org> <20100803123714.GU24773@redhat.com> <20100803124808.GW13789@amd.home.annexia.org> <4C58176B.2050306@redhat.com> <20100803140506.GD22211@amd.home.annexia.org> <4C5829E1.60004@redhat.com> <20100803145337.GF22211@amd.home.annexia.org> <4C583F6A.7030600@redhat.com> <20100803162857.GX13789@amd.home.annexia.org> <4C584781.9040609@redhat.com> <4C5847CD.9080107@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Richard W.M. Jones" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Gleb Natapov , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:24274 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932283Ab0HCQuV (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Aug 2010 12:50:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4C5847CD.9080107@codemonkey.ws> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 08/03/2010 07:46 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> It doesn't appear to support live migration, or hiding the feature >> for -M older. >> >> It's not a good path to follow. Tomorrow we'll need to load 300MB >> initrds and we'll have to rework this yet again. Meanwhile the >> kernel and virtio support demand loading of any image size you'd want >> to use. > > > firmware is totally broken with respect to -M older FWIW. > Well, then this is adding to the brokenness. fwcfg dma is going to have exactly one user, libguestfs. Much better to have libguestfs move to some other interface and improve are users-to-interfaces ratio. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function