On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 05:33:00AM -0400, David Gibson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:14:26AM +0200, Roedel, Joerg wrote: > > I don't see a reason to make this meta-grouping static. It would harm > > flexibility on x86. I think it makes things easier on power but there > > are options on that platform to get the dynamic solution too. > > I think several people are misreading what Ben means by "static". I > would prefer to say 'persistent', in that the meta-groups lifetime is > not tied to an fd, but they can be freely created, altered and removed > during runtime. Even if it can be altered at runtime, from a usability perspective it is certainly the best to handle these groups directly in qemu. Or are there strong reasons to do it somewhere else? Joerg -- AMD Operating System Research Center Advanced Micro Devices GmbH Einsteinring 24 85609 Dornach General Managers: Alberto Bozzo, Andrew Bowd Registration: Dornach, Landkr. Muenchen; Registerger. Muenchen, HRB Nr. 43632 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
