From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kdo64-0002ll-SY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:28:40 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kdo63-0002lZ-KN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:28:40 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38965 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kdo63-0002lW-Bx for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:28:39 -0400 Received: from il.qumranet.com ([212.179.150.194]:24360) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kdo62-0001Eu-VE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:28:39 -0400 Message-ID: <48C93923.9030200@qumranet.com> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:28:35 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] split memory allocation References: <1221140541-24464-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1221140541-24464-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com Glauber Costa wrote: > Right now, kvm keeps the memory allocation split, so we can > handle different areas in different ways. This schema works with qemu > too, so it appears to be the common ground. > > This patch proposes using this common ground for everyone, by spliting > raw qemu. > I would rather see qemu switched to using memory slots. The big chunk approach doesn't work well with memory hotplug (or with device hotplug when the device provides a memory resource). -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function