Very nice! I've tested this series (with your new 3/4) with win2k, winxp, ubuntu 7.10, and opensuse. Everything seemed to work just fine.
I also was able to create four 1G VMs on my 2G laptop :-) That was very neat. Regards, Anthony Liguori Izik Eidus wrote: > this patchs allow the guest not shadowed memory to be swapped out. > > to make it the must effective you should run -kvm-shadow-memory 1 (witch > will make your machine slow) > with -kvm-shadow-memory 1, 3giga memory guest can get to be just 32mb > on physical host! > > when not using -kvm-shadow-memory, i saw 4100mb machine getting to as > low as 168mb on the physical host (not as bad as i thought it would be, > and surely not as bad as it can be with 41mb of shadow pages :)) > > > it seems to be very stable, it didnt crushed to me once, and i was able > to run: > 2 3giga each windows xp + 5giga linux guest > > and > 2 4.1 giga each windows xp and 2 2giga each windows xp. > > few things to note: > ignore for now the ugly messages at dmesg, it is due to the fact that > gfn_to_page try to sleep while local intrreupts disabled ( we have to > split some emulator function so it wont do it) > > and i saw some issue with the new rmapp at fedora 7 live cd, for some > reason , in the nonpaging mode rmap_remove getting called about 50 times > less than it need > it doesnt happen at other linux guests, need to check this... (for now > it mean you might have about 200k of memory leak for each fedora 7 live > cd you are runing ) > > also note that now kvm load much faster, beacuse no memset on all the > memory is needed (beacuse gfn_to_page get called at run time) > > (avi, and dor, note that this patch include small fix to a bug in the > patch that i sent you) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
