Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: align ram_size to page boundary

[Avi Kivity]

On 06/17/2012 02:47 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>
>>> I think this should rather go into generic code. 
>> 
>> To be honest, I put this in kvm-specific code because vl.c doesn't have
>> TARGET_PAGE_ALIGN.  Maybe we should have machine->page_size or
>> machine->ram_alignment.
>> 
>>> What sense does it make
>>> to have partial pages with TCG?
>> 
>> Why impose an artificial restriction?
> 
> Beca...
> 
>> 
>> (answer: to reduce differences among various accelerators)
>> 
> 
> Oh, you found the answer. :)

Reducing round-trips across the Internet.

> 
> At least, it should be enforce for the x86 target, independent of the
> accelerator.

Yeah.  So there's machine->page_size or machine->ram_alignment.  Not
sure which is best.

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