From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm upstreaming: Do we want -kvm-shadow-memory semantics?
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:04:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F1FEFCA.2060907@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F1FEE1F.8080907@siemens.com>
On 01/25/2012 01:57 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >
> > -kvm-shadow-memory is becoming less meaningful for ordinary workloads
> > since everything uses TDP these days. It's still meaningful for testing
> > (forcing aggressive cache replacement), or perhaps nested virtualization.
>
> So, is it used for testing in fact?
It is not, but it should be. There's an extra_params option in
autotest, I'll start using it to stress the mmu some more, even though
it's going to slow things down for me.
> Would a machine option
> "kvm_shadow_memory=n" be desirable?
Not sure, this is a host option, not a guest option. Machine options
should be guest-visible.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-25 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-19 12:46 [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm upstreaming: Do we want -kvm-shadow-memory semantics? Jan Kiszka
2012-01-19 13:24 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-19 13:30 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-01-19 13:42 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-19 17:28 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-01-19 17:39 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-01-25 11:38 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-25 11:57 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-01-25 12:04 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-01-25 12:10 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-01-25 12:15 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-25 12:26 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-01-25 12:33 ` Avi Kivity
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