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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/3] memory: add -disable-mem-merge command-line o


From: Luiz Capitulino
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/3] memory: add -disable-mem-merge command-line option
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:51:40 -0300

On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:47:07 +0300
Avi Kivity <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 06/25/2012 11:26 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > On 2012-06-25 18:55, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> >> Allow for disabling memory merge support (KSM on Linux), which is
> >> enabled by default otherwise.
> > 
> > -machine mem_merge=on|off?
> 
> It's a host property, not a guest property.
> 
> For devices we have a pretty good separation, -device gives the guest
> properties and -netdev/-blockdev gives the host properties.  We should
> either do the same for -machine, or mark host properties as such.  For
> example, when we migrate the qom forest, we shouldn't migrate host
> properties, only guest properties.

Can you be more specific on how you think we could do it?

I can only think of having -host, then maybe the -mem options should be
moved there too.



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