[libvirt] [RFC PATCH 6/6] qemu: Format pseries.cap-hpt-mps on the command line

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Wed, 2018-06-06 at 12:04 +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 12:02:12 +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > On Wed, 2018-06-06 at 11:14 +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > > 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 :)
> 
> Well, it will most probably be configured by some policy code from a
> upper layer mgmt tool, so I don't think users will actually ever touch
> it.

Probably. Still not a good reason not to ensure it's human-friendly
at every layer of the stack IMHO.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization