On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 01:09:32AM -0400, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > > > +#define TYPE_MEMORY_BACKEND_FILE "memory-backend-file" > > > how about naming it after what it really is? "memory-backend-hugepage" > > > Later we could split it into generic superclass mmap-ed > > > "memory-backend-file" and have TPH specific code moved into this backend. > > > > OK. > > Actually I don't think there's anything hugepage-specific in this backend > (except perhaps passing a path instead of a filename). It could be used > with a tmpfs backing storage like /dev/shm.
What's the point compared to memory-backend-ram? Igor suggested memory-backend-file be compiled only for Linux. Does this mean memory-backend-file shuold be compiled also for systems supporting tmpfs or like? Regards, Hu
