On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 7:40 PM, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: > Option parameter "share" is missing. Without it, you get a *private* > mmap(), which defeats ivshmem's purpose pretty thoroughly ;) > > While there, switch to the conventional mountpoint of hugetlbfs > /dev/hugepages. > > Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com> > --- > qemu-doc.texi | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi > index bc9dd13..65f3b29 100644 > --- a/qemu-doc.texi > +++ b/qemu-doc.texi > @@ -1311,7 +1311,7 @@ Instead of specifying the <shm size> using POSIX shm, > you may specify > a memory backend that has hugepage support: > > @example > -qemu-system-i386 -object > memory-backend-file,size=1G,mem-path=/mnt/hugepages/my-shmem-file,id=mb1 > +qemu-system-i386 -object > memory-backend-file,size=1G,mem-path=/dev/hugepages/my-shmem-file,share,id=mb1 > -device ivshmem,x-memdev=mb1 > @end example > > -- > 2.4.3 > > -- Marc-André Lureau
