From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49694) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGq45-0007mF-Ua for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 08:22:59 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGq3z-0004QX-Vv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 08:22:53 -0500 Message-ID: <53075321.6030505@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 14:22:41 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1392013975-1656-1-git-send-email-aik@ozlabs.ru> <5306DCC0.7010107@ozlabs.ru> <1A5B5EFA-FE6C-46F6-BA22-D524B6F43207@suse.de> <53074CF8.4090900@ozlabs.ru> <57F80552-CE67-411F-8263-35B84A3CEA54@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <57F80552-CE67-411F-8263-35B84A3CEA54@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] file ram alloc: fail if cannot preallocate List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alexander Graf , Alexey Kardashevskiy Cc: Antonios Motakis , "list@suse.de:PowerPC" , QEMU Developers , Peter Maydell Il 21/02/2014 14:02, Alexander Graf ha scritto: > I think it makes sense to disable any fallback for -mem-path, so that > it always only allocates RAM pages from the -mem-path pool. But this > is a big change from how it used to work before and thus needs to be > properly coordinated. > > Paolo, Peter, any thoughts here? Version 2.0 might be a good fit for > such a change ;). I agree it would be nice, but as Alexey said it would be best to only require hugepage-backed memory for the bulk of RAM. So I'd prefer to wait for memdev, and then we can just deprecate -mem-path and -mem-prealloc. Paolo