Re: [libvirt] [RFC PATCH 6/6] qemu: Format pseries.cap-hpt-mps on the command line
On Wed, 2018-06-06 at 11:14 +1000, David Gibson wrote:
Personally I think the shift is *more* usable than a raw page size,
since the latter is inevitably going to involve counting a bunch of
zeroes to see if it's the number you meant. Allowing forms like "16M"
/ "16G" could be nicer; not sure if we have existing helper functions
which will make that easy.
I was indeed thinking about the latter.
TBH, if the user is already thinking about page sizes at this low
level, I don't think doing it by shift is much of a stretch.
I disagree that it's such a low level setting that only people who
can do bitwise shifts off the top of their heads will want to
tweak: if it were, then libvirt will probably not need to expose
it in the first place :)
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