[kvm-devel] KVM Test result, kernel f1ca151.., userspace 0088a24..

2008-02-02 Thread Zhao, Yunfeng
Hi,All This is today's KVM test result against kvm.git f1ca151a368192b182a9f9e696e211e18927f040 and kvm-userspace.git 0088a24f6b38f534ae620e4c484d10aba4f5da96. No new issue has been found. Issue List: 1. smp windows installer crashes while rebooting

Re: [kvm-devel] [patch 0/4] [RFC] EMMU Notifiers V5

2008-02-02 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 09:04:39PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: - Has page tables to track pages whose refcount was elevated(?) but no reverse maps. Just a correction, rmaps exists or swap couldn't be sane, it's just that it's not built on the page_t because the guest memory is really

Re: [kvm-devel] [patch 2/4] mmu_notifier: Callbacks to invalidate address ranges

2008-02-02 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 05:35:28PM -0600, Robin Holt wrote: No, we need a callout when we are becoming more restrictive, but not when becoming more permissive. I would have to guess that is the case for any of these callouts. It is for both GRU and XPMEM. I would expect the same is true for

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v5

2008-02-02 Thread Jack Steiner
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 03:17:04AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 11:23:57AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: Yes so your invalidate_range is still some sort of dysfunctional optimization? Gazillions of invalidate_page's will have to be executed when tearing down

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v5

2008-02-02 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 09:14:57PM -0600, Jack Steiner wrote: Also, most (but not all) applications that use the GRU do not usually do anything that requires frequent flushing (fortunately). The GRU is intended for HPC-like applications. These don't usually do frequent map/unmap operations or

[kvm-devel] Fedora 8 as kvm guest

2008-02-02 Thread Bob Tennent
I'm experimenting with kvm on a Fedora 8 system. I've installed the necessary packages, have a suitable CPU etc. I'll eventually aim for a Windows guest, but am trying out a virtual Fedora 8 guest. When I try to install a Fedora guest, it threatens to wipe and re-partition the whole drive. It does