On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 11:15:16AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > Powerpc architecture uses a hash based page table mechanism for mapping > virtual > addresses to physical address. The architecture require this hash page table > to > be physically contiguous. With KVM on Powerpc currently we use early > reservation > mechanism for allocating guest hash page table. This implies that we need to > reserve a big memory region to ensure we can create large number of guest > simultaneously with KVM on Power. Another disadvantage is that the reserved > memory > is not available to rest of the subsystems and and that implies we limit the > total > available memory in the host. > > This patch series switch the guest hash page table allocation to use > contiguous memory allocator. > > Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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