Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Memory API

[Anthony Liguori]

On 05/22/2011 02:38 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 05/20/2011 06:59 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > >
> > > Jan had mentioned previously about registering a new temporary window.
> > > I assume the registration always gets highest_priority++, or do you
> > have
> > > to explicitly specify that PCI container gets priority=1?
> >
> > The latter.
> >
> > And I really prefer to have this explicit over deriving the priority
> > from the registration order. That's way too fragile/unhandy. If you
> > decide to replace a region of lower priority later on, you need to
> > reregister everything at that level.
>
> Exactly.

So priority is equivalent to registration order except it's explicit?

So this is more palatable to me but I do prefer registration order since 
it promises less.

But that said, this is a relatively minor feature IMHO given that I now 
understand the scope so I'm not going to object strongly.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori