From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Cc: blauwirbel@gmail.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 1/2] Minimal RAM API support
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:11:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1292440295.2862.50.camel@x201> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201012151723.32164.paul@codesourcery.com>
On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 17:23 +0000, Paul Brook wrote:
> > This adds a minimum chunk of Anthony's RAM API support so that we
> > can identify actual VM RAM versus all the other things that make
> > use of qemu_ram_alloc.
>
> Why do we care? How are you defining "actual VM RAM"?
>
> Surely the whole point of qemu_ram_alloc is to allocate a chunk of memory that
> can be mapped into the guest physical address space, so all uses of
> qemu_ram_alloc should be using this API.
http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/RamAPI
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-15 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-13 21:24 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/2] Minimal RAM API support Alex Williamson
2010-12-13 21:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 1/2] " Alex Williamson
2010-12-15 17:23 ` Paul Brook
2010-12-15 19:11 ` Alex Williamson [this message]
2010-12-15 19:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-12-13 21:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/2] RAM API: Make use of it for x86 PC Alex Williamson
2010-12-14 9:18 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-12-14 15:16 ` Alex Williamson
2010-12-14 15:18 ` Anthony Liguori
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