Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 05/14] vl: handle "-device dimm"

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 12/07/2013 04:39, Hu Tao ha scritto:
> > without necessity to specify to be hot-plugged DIMMs at startup, hot-plug
> > could become more flexible since arbitrarily sized DIMMs with required NUMA
> > mapping could be specified during hot-plug time, for example:
> > 
> >   device_add dimm,id=dimm1,bus=membus.0,size=3G,node=1,...
> 
> Seems impossible as ACPI memory devices' ranges must be specified at startup,
> but I'll be glad if I'm wrong.

Yeah, I also understood the problem to be the SRAT, not the DSDT...  Of
course you could reserve a single large part of the address range in
"-numa mem", and then add one or more DIMMs covering only part of the
address range.

Perhaps "populated" could be a size instead of a boolean, to do
something like what Igor suggested.

Paolo