On 01/25/2012 01:57 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: > > > > -kvm-shadow-memory is becoming less meaningful for ordinary workloads > > since everything uses TDP these days. It's still meaningful for testing > > (forcing aggressive cache replacement), or perhaps nested virtualization. > > So, is it used for testing in fact?
It is not, but it should be. There's an extra_params option in autotest, I'll start using it to stress the mmu some more, even though it's going to slow things down for me. > Would a machine option > "kvm_shadow_memory=n" be desirable? Not sure, this is a host option, not a guest option. Machine options should be guest-visible. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
