Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] ivshmem: allow the sharing of hugepages

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Pavel Fedin <address@hidden> wrote:
>  But what will cause memory-backend-ram to use hugetlb instead of just a RAM?
>
>  P.S. Sorry if the question is stupid, i'm not really familiar in hugetlb 
> details. I only know that managing huge pages is done via hugetlbfs.


Ah right, docs/memory-hotplug.txt should give you more details:
memory-backend-file,id=mem1,size=1G,mem-path=/mnt/hugepages-1GB

I wish they would have documented this in qemu-docs.texi too

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Marc-André Lureau