Re: [PATCH 1/2] softmmu: move more files to softmmu/

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

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
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