Re: SMRAM sizes on large hosts

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 03/05/2017 08:57, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> qemu implements what physical q35 support.  The extended smram register
> has two bits for the tseg size, three out of the four values are used
> (for 1, 2, 8 MB sizes).  "11" is reserved in the specs.  We could use
> "11" to implement a bigger tseg.  Current code sets the tseg size to
> zero for "11".  Alternatively we could add some qemu-specific register.

If you can set TSEG while SMRAM is closed, you could detect that in
edk2.  According to Laszlo 32 MB should be more than enough, and we
could enable it only for >192 CPUs.

Paolo

> When implementing this in qemu we will have to do it runtime-switchable,
> for backward compatibility with older qemu versions.  So ideally
> firmware would detect somehow whenever qemu supports a bigger tseg or
> not and adapt at runtime.  If edk2 can't do this we would need two edk2
> builds ...