Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] split memory allocation

[Glauber Costa]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 06:29:38PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> It's not really a hole.  QEMU leaves a hole from 0xa0000 to 0xc0000  
>> because this is the VGA area.  KVM remaps this range to normal RAM  
>> when the guest sets the VGA card to have a linear framebuffer as an  
>> optimization.
>>
>
> kvm doesn't remap it to normal RAM, it remaps it to a framebuffer.  So  
> from the RAM viewpoint, it is a hole.

for VGA yes, but the said "hole" is much bigger than the vga space itself.
Not all of it is "hole".

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> error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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