On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 05:37:21PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > I appreciate the review! I hope my entirely bug free and > > strightforward #v5 will strongly increase the probability of getting > > this in sooner than later. If something else it shows the approach I > > prefer to cover GRU/KVM 100%, leaving the overkill mutex locking > > requirements only to the mmu notifier users that can't deal with the > > scalar and finegrined and already-taken/trashed PT lock. > > Mutex locking? Could you be more specific?
I think he is talking about the external locking that xpmem will need to do to ensure we are not able to refault pages inside of regions that are undergoing recall/page table clearing. At least that has been my understanding to this point. Thanks, Robin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
