On 20/05/2015 17:46, Radim Krčmář wrote: > I am a bit worried about the explosion that would happen if we wanted, > for example, per-VCPU address spaces
Those would be very expensive. If we were to implement relocatable APIC base, we would have to do it in a different way than with memslots. > My main issue (orthogonal to layering) is that we don't allow a way to > let userspace tell us that some slots in different name spaces are the > same slot. We're losing information that could be useful in the future > (I can only think of less slot queries for dirty log now). You're right. On the other hand, I think the ship has sailed the moment the dirty log was GPA-indexed. > What I like about your solution is that it fits existing code really > well, is easily modified if needs change, and that it already exists. Yes, it does fit existing code really well. Thanks for the discussion! Paolo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
