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To: Laurent Desnogues <laurent.desnogues@gmail.com>
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On 2015-12-08 11:51, Laurent Desnogues wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> wrote:
> [...]
> > I already posted a patch a long time ago to remove the 16MB limit on ARM
> > hosts:
> >
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-10/msg01684.html
> >
> > However as you can see in the thread, it has been rejected as it doesn't
> > not bring improvement in all cases.
> 
> We could perhaps resurrect it and do some more benchmarking?  Who
> would be able to do testing on (recent) ARM hardware?

I can provide an updated patch, but I would prefer if someone else does
the benchmarking on a really recent hardware. Not sure the hardware I
have (cortex A7) is really representative of a modern ARM CPU.

Aurelien

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