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
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