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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memory: transaction API
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:58:46 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E282286.2050508@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E28211C.5060705@siemens.com>

On 07/21/2011 03:52 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >
> >  The problem is that "update" can change lots of things.  offset, size,
> >  whether it's mmio or RAM, read-onlyness, even the wierd things like
> >  coalesced mmio.  So it's either a function with 324.2 parameters (or a
> >  large struct), or it's a series of functions with demarcation as to
> >  where the update begins and ends.
>
> We do not need to provide update support for each and every bit, but for
> the common cases. memory_region_update_alias(region, offset, size) would
> be an excellent first candidate IMO.

It's not enough, look at cirrus and PAM.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-21 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-21 10:21 [PATCH] memory: transaction API Avi Kivity
2011-07-21 10:38 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-07-21 12:05   ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-21 12:08     ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-21 12:09     ` Jan Kiszka
2011-07-21 12:13       ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-21 12:52         ` Jan Kiszka
2011-07-21 12:58           ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-07-21 13:17             ` Jan Kiszka
2011-07-21 13:50               ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-21 14:32                 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-07-21 14:39                   ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-21 15:05                     ` Jan Kiszka
2011-07-21 15:11                       ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-21 11:04 ` Ferry Huberts
2011-07-21 12:07   ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-21 12:26     ` Ferry Huberts
2011-07-21 12:46       ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-21 12:56         ` Ferry Huberts

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