Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Object-based physical memory management

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>> Currently, qemu manages physical memory at a page granularity (and with
>> subpage, at a byte granularity).  This is expensive in memory and 
>> runtime
>> (requiring 8 bytes per page, and likely a cache miss on access), and is
>> difficult to manage: devices must remember their ranges so they can free
>> them, and the memory system has no insight into how memory is laid out.
>>
>> This patchset introduces object-based memory management.  The first 
>> patch
>> adds objects and functions for memory regions; the second patch wraps 
>> this
>> for PCI; and the third converts RTL8139 as an example.
>>   
>
> I like the basic notion here.  Instead of introducing the API and 
> converting one user, I'd rather do a flag day and convert everything.

I agree, just getting this out to collect feedback (and to undust this 
month-old branch).

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