On 10/6/20 11:54 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 06/10/20 11:43, BALATON Zoltan wrote: >> >> The name of this dir may be misleading. I think it originally stood >> for the actual MMU emulation but now it seems everything related to >> system emulation is dumped here. Is it better to keep MMU emulation >> separate and put other files in a "sysemu" dir or rename this dir if >> it keeps mixing MMU emulation and system emulation parts? (I think >> the MMU emulation is a weak part of QEMU regarding performance so it >> would be better to keep that cleanly separated so that it's easier to >> analyse and optimise it in the future, which is more difficult if >> it's mixed with other parts where it's not even clear what >> constitutes the actual MMU emulation. So I vote for keeping it >> separate.) > > I agree that softmmu/ should have been called sysemu/. But I think it's > unnecessary churn to do that now.
It is not necessary, but there are so many files moved around recently so it is not a bad time to clarify it neither :) OTOH yes many files have been moved around recently, so we might wait for the next release before attacking this cleanup. > > Paolo > >
