From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50813) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ua0dO-0005Ux-H0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 08 May 2013 05:26:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ua0dL-00006E-Fu for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 08 May 2013 05:26:02 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:5607) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ua0dL-00006A-6M for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 08 May 2013 05:25:59 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 11:25:55 +0200 From: Stefan Hajnoczi Message-ID: <20130508092555.GG16581@stefanha-thinkpad.muc.redhat.com> References: <1367850321-1732-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1367850321-1732-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/8] MemoryRegion and FlatView refcounting, replace hostmem with memory_region_find List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: jan.kiszka@siemens.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemulist@gmail.com On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 04:25:13PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > this is an alternative approach to refactoring of dataplane's HostMem > code. Here, I take Ping Fan's idea of RCU-style updating of the > region list and apply it to the AddressSpace's FlatView. With this > change, dataplane can simply use memory_region_find instead of > hostmem. Getting rid of hostmem is nice since we nearly have the necessary infrastructure in the core memory API already. Stefan