Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] ivshmem: allow the sharing of mmap'd files

2013-09-20 Thread Damien Millescamps
On 09/20/2013 10:45 PM, Benoît Canet wrote: > Le Friday 20 Sep 2013 à 20:34:47 (+0200), Damien Millescamps a écrit : >> This patch permits to share memory areas that do not specifically belong to >> /dev/shm. In such case, the file must be already present when launching qemu. >> A new parameter 'fi

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] ivshmem: allow the sharing of mmap'd files

2013-09-20 Thread Benoît Canet
Le Friday 20 Sep 2013 à 20:34:47 (+0200), Damien Millescamps a écrit : > This patch permits to share memory areas that do not specifically belong to > /dev/shm. In such case, the file must be already present when launching qemu. > A new parameter 'file' has been added to specify the file to use. >

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] ivshmem: allow the sharing of mmap'd files

2013-09-20 Thread Damien Millescamps
This patch permits to share memory areas that do not specifically belong to /dev/shm. In such case, the file must be already present when launching qemu. A new parameter 'file' has been added to specify the file to use. A use case for this patch is sharing huge pages available through a hugetlbfs