On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 16:40 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > This patch attempts to clean up kvmctl so that it can be more easily made to > work for multiple architectures and to support more emulation. > > It introduces a io dispatch mechanism. This mechanism supports subpage > granularity but is optimized to efficiently cover regions of pages too. It's > a 64-bit address space that's structured as a 5-level table.
> For x86, we'll have two tables, a pio_table and an mmio_table. For PPC we can > just have a single table. The IO functions can support accesses of up to 8 > bytes and can handle input/output in the same function. > > I tried to keep this nice and simple so as to not add too much complexity to > kvmctl. I'm having a hard time seeing how this range stuff is useful. Other than that, a 5-level table sounds like overcomplicating something where a plain old hash table would do just fine, but it's only one function so I guess I can't complain much. -- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
