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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] pc: align gpa<->hpa on 1GB boundary by
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To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: aarcange@redhat.com, peter.maydell@linaro.org, gleb@redhat.com, quintela@redhat.com, jan.kiszka@siemens.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, aliguori@amazon.com, Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>, afaerber@suse.de, rth@twiddle.net

Il 30/10/2013 20:31, Marcelo Tosatti ha scritto:
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> I do not believe that unability to deal with memory aliases on the
> future ability to create machine from configuration is strong enough
> reason to justify pushing mixed 1GB and 2MB pages size to the user (1GB
> pages are allocated on the host kernel command line).

I agree.  The memory allocation in your patch is a bit awkward, but from
the user's point of view it is by far the cleanest.

Paolo