On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 07:48:06PM +0200, Izik Eidus wrote:
Rik van Riel wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:24:18 +0100
Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my basic initial patch I only track the tlb flushes which should be
the minimum required to have a nice linux-VM controlled
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 07:48:06PM +0200, Izik Eidus wrote:
Rik van Riel wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:24:18 +0100
Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my basic initial patch I only track the tlb flushes which should be
the minimum
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 08:21:16PM +0200, Izik Eidus wrote:
ohh i like it, this is cleaver solution, and i guess the cost of the
vmexits wont be too high if it will
be not too much aggressive
Yes, and especially during swapping, the system isn't usually CPU
bound. The idea is to pay with
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:24:18 +0100
Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my basic initial patch I only track the tlb flushes which should be
the minimum required to have a nice linux-VM controlled swapping
behavior of the KVM gphysical memory.
I have a vaguely related question on KVM
Rik van Riel wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:24:18 +0100
Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my basic initial patch I only track the tlb flushes which should be
the minimum required to have a nice linux-VM controlled swapping
behavior of the KVM gphysical memory.
I have a
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 12:02 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
About the locking perhaps I'm underestimating it, but by following the
TLB flushing analogy, by simply clearing the shadow ptes (with kvm
mmu_lock spinlock to avoid racing with other
Hello,
This patch is last version of a basic implementation of the mmu
notifiers.
In short when the linux VM decides to free a page, it will unmap it
from the linux pagetables. However when a page is mapped not just by
the regular linux ptes, but also from the shadow pagetables, it's
currently
On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 17:24 +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
Hello,
This patch is last version of a basic implementation of the mmu
notifiers.
In short when the linux VM decides to free a page, it will unmap it
from the linux pagetables. However when a page is mapped not just by
the
