On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 11:40:34PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 07:31:19PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > v2: condition enablement of new mapping to new machine types (Paolo) > > v3: fix changelog > > v4: rebase > > > > ----- > > > > > > Align guest physical address and host physical address > > beyond guest 4GB on a 1GB boundary. > > > > Otherwise 1GB TLBs cannot be cached for the range. > > > > Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosa...@redhat.com> > > Um. This will conflict with: > pc: map PCI address space as catchall region for not mapped addresses > > I think we really should stop using the hacked hole thing > and just use priorities like that patch does.
Sorry hacked in what way? This patch is necessary to enable 1GB hugepages beyond 4GB of RAM on the current machine types. > Do you agree? If yes I'm afraid your patch will have to be > rebased on top of that yet again, sorry to give you a > run-around like that :( I don't see what exactly is the suggestion (or why the proposed patch should conflict with "pc: map PCI address space as catchall region for not mapped addresses"). > Also - do you think this is 1.7 material? No. Paolo mentioned you have a tree with 1.8 material, correct?
