Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm upstreaming: Do we want -kvm-shadow-memory semantics?

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2012-01-19 14:24, Alexander Graf wrote:
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> On 19.01.2012, at 13:46, Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Hi again,
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>> do we need some KVM knob comparable to qemu-kvm's -kvm-shadow-memory in
>> upstream?
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> What does it do? Never heard of it :)

According to inline docs: "Chang[e] the number of mmu pages allocated to
the vm". That's from arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c, kvm_mmu_change_mmu_pages().
That's soft-MMU related so, I bet, of decreasing relevance for x86.

Jan

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