Re: [PATCH] smbios: make memory device size configurable per Machine

2025-02-04 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
On 11/7/24 10:42, Igor Mammedov wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 10:19:27 +0200 Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: Hi Igor, On 11/7/24 09:48, Igor Mammedov wrote: Currently SMBIOS maximum memory device chunk is capped at 16Gb, which is fine for the most cases (QEMU uses it to describe initial RAM (type

Re: [PATCH] smbios: make memory device size configurable per Machine

2024-07-20 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 03:05:11PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 07:13:27 -0400 > "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 09:48:22AM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote: > > > Currently SMBIOS maximum memory device chunk is capped at 16Gb, > > > which is fine for the

Re: [PATCH] smbios: make memory device size configurable per Machine

2024-07-11 Thread Igor Mammedov
On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 07:13:27 -0400 "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 09:48:22AM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote: > > Currently SMBIOS maximum memory device chunk is capped at 16Gb, > > which is fine for the most cases (QEMU uses it to describe initial > > RAM (type 17 SMBIOS table

Re: [PATCH] smbios: make memory device size configurable per Machine

2024-07-11 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 09:48:22AM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote: > Currently SMBIOS maximum memory device chunk is capped at 16Gb, > which is fine for the most cases (QEMU uses it to describe initial > RAM (type 17 SMBIOS table entries)). > However when starting guest with terabytes of RAM this leads

Re: [PATCH] smbios: make memory device size configurable per Machine

2024-07-11 Thread Igor Mammedov
On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:43:46 +0100 Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 09:48:22AM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote: > > Currently SMBIOS maximum memory device chunk is capped at 16Gb, > > which is fine for the most cases (QEMU uses it to describe initial > > RAM (type 17 SMBIOS table en

Re: [PATCH] smbios: make memory device size configurable per Machine

2024-07-11 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 09:48:22AM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote: > Currently SMBIOS maximum memory device chunk is capped at 16Gb, > which is fine for the most cases (QEMU uses it to describe initial > RAM (type 17 SMBIOS table entries)). > However when starting guest with terabytes of RAM this leads

Re: [PATCH] smbios: make memory device size configurable per Machine

2024-07-11 Thread Igor Mammedov
On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 10:19:27 +0200 Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > Hi Igor, > > On 11/7/24 09:48, Igor Mammedov wrote: > > Currently SMBIOS maximum memory device chunk is capped at 16Gb, > > which is fine for the most cases (QEMU uses it to describe initial > > RAM (type 17 SMBIOS table entries)

Re: [PATCH] smbios: make memory device size configurable per Machine

2024-07-11 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
Hi Igor, On 11/7/24 09:48, Igor Mammedov wrote: Currently SMBIOS maximum memory device chunk is capped at 16Gb, which is fine for the most cases (QEMU uses it to describe initial RAM (type 17 SMBIOS table entries)). However when starting guest with terabytes of RAM this leads to too many memory

[PATCH] smbios: make memory device size configurable per Machine

2024-07-11 Thread Igor Mammedov
Currently SMBIOS maximum memory device chunk is capped at 16Gb, which is fine for the most cases (QEMU uses it to describe initial RAM (type 17 SMBIOS table entries)). However when starting guest with terabytes of RAM this leads to too many memory device structures, which eventually upsets linux ke