Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Implement H_CLEAR_REF and H_CLEAR_MOD

2015-09-12 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 09/06/15 16:52, Paul Mackerras wrote: On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 12:47:12PM -0700, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: Anything I can do to help move these along? It's a big performance improvement for FreeBSD guests. These patches are in Paolo's kvm-ppc-next branch and should go into Linus&#x

Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Implement H_CLEAR_REF and H_CLEAR_MOD

2015-09-06 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
Fantastic, thanks! -Nathan On 09/06/15 16:52, Paul Mackerras wrote: On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 12:47:12PM -0700, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: Anything I can do to help move these along? It's a big performance improvement for FreeBSD guests. These patches are in Paolo's kvm-ppc-next branch

Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Implement H_CLEAR_REF and H_CLEAR_MOD

2015-09-06 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
Anything I can do to help move these along? It's a big performance improvement for FreeBSD guests. -Nathan On 07/27/15 10:31, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: I've been running with these patches and a FreeBSD guest for a while now and they work very well, providing big performance impro

Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Implement H_CLEAR_REF and H_CLEAR_MOD

2015-07-27 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
I've been running with these patches and a FreeBSD guest for a while now and they work very well, providing big performance improvements in tight memory situations. Thanks! I did have to patch QEMU to enable the hypercalls, however -- it might be worth adding them to the default set since these

Re: H_CLEAR_REF and H_CLEAR_MOD

2015-04-11 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 02/18/15 15:33, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: On 02/18/15 14:00, Paul Mackerras wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 09:34:54AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: Am 18.02.2015 um 07:12 schrieb Nathan Whitehorn : It seems like KVM doesn't implement the H_CLEAR_REF and H_CLEAR_MOD hypervisor

Re: H_CLEAR_REF and H_CLEAR_MOD

2015-02-18 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 02/18/15 14:00, Paul Mackerras wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 09:34:54AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: Am 18.02.2015 um 07:12 schrieb Nathan Whitehorn : It seems like KVM doesn't implement the H_CLEAR_REF and H_CLEAR_MOD hypervisor calls, which are absolutely critical for memory manag