[PATCH 2/2] arm64: dts: Reduce size of virtio block device for foundation model

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Dec 20 09:25:24 EST 2013


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:52:44PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> From: Mark Brown <broonie at linaro.org>
> 
> Will Deacon observed that kvmtool uses a size of 0x200 for virtio
> block memory region and that the virtio block spec only uses 31 bytes in
> the device specific region at 0x100 so reduce the region to a less
> wasteful 0x200.

What do we waste by keeping it at 4K? That's ioremap'ed, so we use a
full page anyway.

-- 
Catalin



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