From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ml01.01.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5828921A13484 for ; Wed, 3 May 2017 15:34:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BFE9181222; Wed, 3 May 2017 22:34:45 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mx1.redhat.com BFE9181222 Authentication-Results: ext-mx01.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: ext-mx01.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lersek@redhat.com DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 mx1.redhat.com BFE9181222 Received: from lacos-laptop-7.usersys.redhat.com (ovpn-116-118.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.116.118]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 943247EBC1; Wed, 3 May 2017 22:34:42 +0000 (UTC) To: Paolo Bonzini , Gerd Hoffmann , "Kinney, Michael D" References: <1382eb04-9646-133b-9ce5-8293cb54745f@redhat.com> <1493794647.8581.144.camel@redhat.com> <49e28e04-2a61-c3d8-790a-3c08cf664a07@redhat.com> <071089ea-c73b-3851-899f-829bfe532867@redhat.com> <184f2ebc-ea97-ccf3-7207-ad7b49d9c903@redhat.com> <2e6dec37-8b69-979b-c856-406233273066@redhat.com> Cc: "Fan, Jeff" , "Yao, Jiewen" , edk2-devel-01 From: Laszlo Ersek Message-ID: <81e619e5-f5eb-6d43-2bf7-fe8d008c226c@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 00:34:41 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2e6dec37-8b69-979b-c856-406233273066@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.12 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.25]); Wed, 03 May 2017 22:34:45 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: SMRAM sizes on large hosts X-BeenThere: edk2-devel@lists.01.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: EDK II Development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 22:34:46 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 05/03/17 15:55, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > On 03/05/2017 15:35, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >>> I see. In my other answer I tried to keep it as intact as possible. >>> >>> I'm a bit worried about the limits on the number of fw-cfg files. >> We've promoted that to a device property in QEMU commit e12f3a13e2e1 >> ("fw-cfg: turn FW_CFG_FILE_SLOTS into a device property", 2017-01-12), >> and we've raised the count to 0x20 for 2.9 machtypes, in commit >> a5b3ebfd23bc ("fw-cfg: bump "x-file-slots" to 0x20 for 2.9+ machine >> types", 2017-01-12). >> >> ... Or does your concern already account for those? > > I was aware it had been bumped, though not exactly how much. 32 is > better than before, but still on the lowish side... I tried to be frugal on purpose, but we can bump it again for 2.10, can't we? (Anyway, I'm not pushing for this too hard, just seeking to keep it open as an option.) Thanks, Laszlo