From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41792 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PSwlU-0006Cp-BW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:11:53 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PSwlT-0004em-26 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:11:52 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:32432) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PSwlS-0004eO-Py for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:11:51 -0500 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 1/2] Minimal RAM API support From: Alex Williamson In-Reply-To: <201012151723.32164.paul@codesourcery.com> References: <20101213212059.2472.17879.stgit@s20.home> <20101213212430.2472.23807.stgit@s20.home> <201012151723.32164.paul@codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:11:35 -0700 Message-ID: <1292440295.2862.50.camel@x201> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paul Brook Cc: blauwirbel@gmail.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org 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