On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 04:52:10PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 01/18/2010 04:44 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> >> >>>> The point is that clients can be registered at any point. >>>> >>>> A client that registered when memory is present needs to >>>> be notified about it. >>>> >>>> >>> It looks very expensive. >>> >> Shouldn't be hard to optimize ... >> > > It's O(memory size), which can be very big.
cpu_register_physical_memory_offset already is O(memory size) btw. >>> Maybe we mandate clients be registered at init-time? >>> >> >> This might be tricky - vhost currently only registers when the >> first device is hot-added. >> > > I see. > > Maybe coalesce adjacent pages and call the callback with the ranges? Hmm, it turns out to be tricky: it seems whether we can do this really depends on what get_ram_ptr returns ... Can't we just rely on callback to do the coalescing? > -- > error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function