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From: Pavel Fedin <p.fedin@samsung.com>
To: "'Marc-André Lureau'" <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com>
Cc: 'Andrew Jones' <drjones@redhat.com>,
	'Michael Tokarev' <mjt@tls.msk.ru>,
	'QEMU' <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] ivshmem: allow the sharing of hugepages
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2015 17:22:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <023b01d1010b$96332fa0$c2998ee0$@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ+F1CK33N8dx+WSHNugaAGrQTbEG1PDeVv_4CJwZecgj7q3ww@mail.gmail.com>

 Hello!

> It is like other memdev properties, and there is an example in the
> patch adding a test:
> -object memory-backend-ram,size=1M,id=mb1 -device ivshmem,memdev=mb1

 But what will cause memory-backend-ram to use hugetlb instead of just a RAM?

 P.S. Sorry if the question is stupid, i'm not really familiar in hugetlb details. I only know that managing huge pages is done via hugetlbfs.

Kind regards,
Pavel Fedin
Expert Engineer
Samsung Electronics Research center Russia

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-07 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-06 13:33 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] ivshmem: allow the sharing of hugepages Pavel Fedin
2015-10-06 16:41 ` Andrew Jones
2015-10-07 13:13   ` Pavel Fedin
2015-10-07 13:45     ` Marc-André Lureau
2015-10-07 13:50       ` Pavel Fedin
2015-10-07 13:58         ` Marc-André Lureau
2015-10-07 14:22           ` Pavel Fedin [this message]
2015-10-07 14:24             ` Marc-André Lureau
2015-10-07 14:25             ` Pavel Fedin

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