From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
snabb-devel@googlegroups.com,
"Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@redhat.com>,
"Juan Quintela" <quintela@redhat.com>,
"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
"Michael Tokarev" <mjt@tls.msk.ru>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, n.nikolaev@virtualopensystems.com,
"Alexander Graf" <agraf@suse.de>,
"Anthony Liguori" <aliguori@amazon.com>,
lukego@gmail.com,
"Antonios Motakis" <a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com>,
tech@virtualopensystems.com, "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>,
"Richard Henderson" <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 01/17] Convert -mem-path to QemuOpts and add prealloc and share properties
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:56:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140217075603.GA18334@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53014CF5.8070600@redhat.com>
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:42:45AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 15/02/2014 19:10, Michael Tokarev ha scritto:
> > 13 февраля 2014 г. 16:03:12 GMT+04:00, Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com> пишет:
> >> Extend -mem-path with additional properties:
> >>
> >> - prealloc=on|off - default off, same as -mem-prealloc
> >> - share=on|off - default off, memory is mmapped with MAP_SHARED
> >
> > Maybe we should combine -m and -mem-path options together to form something more sane?
>
> It's on the way: it would be something like
>
> -object mem-file,size=1024M,path=/path/to/foo,share=on,prealloc=on,id=mem \
> -numa node,memdev=mem
>
> using the same host/guest split model that is already in use
> in many other places. Not 2.0 material though.
>
> Paolo
Hmm in that case, let's not add prealloc as a property here.
Stick to existing flag for that, this way we don't need
to support 3 ways to do this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-17 7:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-13 12:03 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/17] Vhost and vhost-net support for userspace based backends Antonios Motakis
2014-02-13 12:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 01/17] Convert -mem-path to QemuOpts and add prealloc and share properties Antonios Motakis
2014-02-15 18:10 ` Michael Tokarev
2014-02-16 23:42 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 7:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2014-02-17 13:04 ` Antonios Motakis
2014-02-17 17:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-13 12:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 02/17] Add chardev API qemu_chr_fe_read_all Antonios Motakis
2014-02-13 12:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 03/17] Add chardev API qemu_chr_fe_set_msgfds Antonios Motakis
2014-02-13 12:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 04/17] Add chardev API qemu_chr_fe_get_msgfds Antonios Motakis
2014-02-13 12:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 05/17] Add G_IO_HUP handler for socket chardev Antonios Motakis
2014-02-13 12:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 06/17] vhost_net should call the poll callback only when it is set Antonios Motakis
2014-02-13 12:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 07/17] Refactor virtio-net to use generic get_vhost_net Antonios Motakis
2014-02-13 12:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 08/17] vhost_net_init will use VhostNetOptions to get all its arguments Antonios Motakis
2014-02-13 12:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 09/17] Add vhost_ops to vhost_dev struct and replace all relevant ioctls Antonios Motakis
2014-02-13 12:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 10/17] Add mandatory_features to vhost_dev Antonios Motakis
2014-02-13 12:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 11/17] Add vhost-backend and VhostBackendType Antonios Motakis
2014-02-13 12:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 12/17] Add vhost-user as a vhost backend Antonios Motakis
2014-02-13 12:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 13/17] Add new vhost-user netdev backend Antonios Motakis
2014-02-13 12:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 14/17] Add the vhost-user netdev backend to the command line Antonios Motakis
2014-02-17 17:17 ` Eric Blake
2014-02-13 12:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 15/17] Add vhost-user protocol documentation Antonios Motakis
2014-02-13 12:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 16/17] libqemustub: add stubs to be able to use qemu-char.c Antonios Motakis
2014-02-13 12:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 17/17] Add qtest for vhost-user Antonios Motakis
2014-02-26 16:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/17] Vhost and vhost-net support for userspace based backends Michael S. Tsirkin
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