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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] KVM: selftests: memslot_perf_test: Consolidate memory
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From:   Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
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Date:   Tue, 18 Oct 2022 07:10:44 +0800
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On 10/18/22 6:56 AM, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
> On 18.10.2022 00:51, Gavin Shan wrote:
>> On 10/18/22 6:08 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2022, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
>>>>> +#define MEM_EXTRA_SIZE        0x10000
>>>>
>>>> Also, an expression like "(64 << 10)" is more readable than a "1"
>>>> with a tail of zeroes (it's easy to add one zero too many or be one
>>>> zero short).
>>>
>>> +1 to not open coding raw numbers.
>>>
>>> I think it's high time KVM selftests add #defines for the common sizes, e.g. SIZE_4KB,
>>> 16KB, 64K, 2MB, 1GB, etc...
>>>
>>> Alternatively (or in addition), just #define 1KB, 1MB, 1GB, and 1TB, and then do
>>> math off of those.
>>>
>>
>> Ok. I will have one separate patch to define those sizes in kvm_util_base.h,
>> right after '#define NSEC_PER_SEC 1000000000L'. Sean, could you let me know
>> if it looks good to you?
>>
>>      #define KB         (1UL << 10)
>>      #define MB         (1UL << 20)
>>      #define GB         (1UL << 30)
>>      #define TB         (1UL << 40)
>>
>>      /* Base page and huge page size */
>>      #define SIZE_4KB   (  4 * KB)
>>      #define SIZE_16KB  ( 16 * KB)
>>      #define SIZE_64KB  ( 64 * KB)
>>      #define SIZE_2MB   (  2 * MB)
>>      #define SIZE_32MB  ( 32 * MB)
>>      #define SIZE_512MB (512 * MB)
>>      #define SIZE_1GB   (  1 * GB)
>>      #define SIZE_16GB  ( 16 * GB)
> 
> FYI, QEMU uses KiB, MiB, GiB, etc., see [1].
> 

Right. I checked QEMU's definitions and it makes sense to use
KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB. I don't think we need PiB and EiB because
our tests don't use that large memory.

> 
> [1]: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blob;f=include/qemu/units.h;hb=HEAD
> 

Thanks,
Gavin