From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39614) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZjVJQ-0004Hk-2x for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2015 12:42:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZjVJL-0007Z2-4O for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2015 12:42:00 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45178) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZjVJK-0007Yt-V0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 06 Oct 2015 12:41:55 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 18:41:50 +0200 From: Andrew Jones Message-ID: <20151006164150.GA9323@hawk.localdomain> References: <017e01d1003b$959bc820$c0d35860$@samsung.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <017e01d1003b$959bc820$c0d35860$@samsung.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] ivshmem: allow the sharing of hugepages List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Pavel Fedin Cc: 'Michael Tokarev' , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 04:33:23PM +0300, Pavel Fedin wrote: > This patch permits to share memory areas that do not specifically belong to > /dev/shm. In such case, the file must be already present when launching qemu. > A new parameter 'file' has been added to specify the file to use. > > A use case for this patch is sharing huge pages available through a > hugetlbfs mountpoint. ivshmem is getting a big reboot right now. See this series "[PATCH v5 00/48] ivshmem improvements". Part of that work is to better support sharing huge pages. Please look at that series first, and if there's still something missing, then additional patches to that series should be posted. Thanks, drew