Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote: > > On 09.09.2013, at 09:28, Michael Neuling wrote: > > >> At present, PR KVM and BookE KVM does multiple copies of FP and > >> related state because of the way that they use the arrays in the > >> thread_struct as an intermediate staging post for the state. They do > >> this so that they can use the existing system functions for loading > >> and saving state, and so that they can keep guest state in the CPU > >> registers while executing general kernel code. > >> > >> This patch series reorganizes things so that KVM and the main kernel > >> use the same representation for FP/VMX/VSX state, and so that guest > >> state can be loaded/save directly from/to the vcpu struct instead of > >> having to go via the thread_struct. This simplifies things and should > >> be a little faster. > >> > >> This series is against Alex Graf's kvm-ppc-queue branch plus my recent > >> series of 23 patches to make PR and HV KVM coexist. > > > > This is great! > > > > Alex, can you pull this into your tree? > > I never apply RFC patches if I can avoid it. Paul, if you think > they're ready for inclusion, please repost them as actual patches.
Arrh, good point. I'll talk to paulus about reposting them. Your kvm-ppc-queue branch on github seems to be based on 3.11-rc1. Is that the tree we should be aiming for currently? Mikey -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm-ppc" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
