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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Remove qemu_alloc_physram()
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To: Laurent Desnogues <laurent.desnogues@gmail.com>, nicolas prochazka <prochazka.nicolas@gmail.com>
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Laurent Desnogues wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:29 AM, nicolas prochazka
> <prochazka.nicolas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Since this patch :
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git;a=commit;h=0e8d16ba06486ebf79f131f28121774715975248
>> Remove qemu_alloc_physram()
>> Obsolete.
>>
>> function alloc_mem_area(memory, &map_len, mem_path);  is never calling in code,
>> and it seems that's  -mem-path ( or -mempath) /hugepages  does not
>> work for me now.
>> before this patch, i can see for example in /proc/meminfo :
>> HugePages_Total:  2560
>> HugePages_Free:   2301
>> when i start one kvm/qemu
>>
>> now , HupePages_Free never down , hugepages_free = hugepages_total.
> 
> Are you sure you're pointing at the right commit?  How could the
> removal of an unused function change the behavior?
> 

I bet Nicolas is looking at qemu-kvm, right? So please post this valid
question to the kvm list.

Jan

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