Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pc: memhotplug: rise minimum DIMM addr/size alignment to 128Mb

[Igor Mammedov]

On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 11:38:56 +0200
Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:

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> On 23/09/2015 11:36, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > Also it's QEMU bug/fault and pushing workaround to upper layers
> > doesn't seem right when it's much easier to do it in QEMU itself.
> 
> No, it's virtio's bug.  It makes sense to push workaround for guest bugs
> as far from the hypervisor as possible.
> 
> If we want to increase the alignment in QEMU, I would prefer to have
> natural alignment which makes some sense and happens to work around the
> bug as well.  Michael, Eduardo, any third opinions?
Natural alignment we have now is 2Mb, we can leave hipervisor side
as is and just try to align on 2Mb in guest + limit buffer size to 2Mb as we
that would make sure that buffer never crosses DIMM borders.

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> Paolo
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