[RFC] GSoC 2010: Memory Compression for Virtualized Environments

2010-03-27 Thread Nitin Gupta
Hi, I will be applying to GSoC 2010 under The Linux Foundation as mentoring organization (Virtualization working group). Below is the application for my planned project: "Memory Compression for Virtualized Environments" (according to LF template). I would be thankful for any comments/feedback. *

Re: [RFC] GSoC 2010: Memory Compression for Virtualized Environments

2010-03-27 Thread Alexander Graf
On 27.03.2010, at 08:38, Nitin Gupta wrote: > Hi, > > I will be applying to GSoC 2010 under The Linux Foundation as mentoring > organization (Virtualization working group). Below is the application for my > planned project: "Memory Compression for Virtualized Environments" > (according to LF tem

Re: [RFC] GSoC 2010: Memory Compression for Virtualized Environments

2010-03-27 Thread Nitin Gupta
On 03/27/2010 02:31 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 27.03.2010, at 08:38, Nitin Gupta wrote: > >> So, this GSoC project aims to provide a new approach for achieving memory >> compression that solves all above issues: cleanly hook into reclaim path >> directly, providing both swap and pagecache

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: jaso-parser: Output the content of invalid keyword

2010-03-27 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:12:05PM +0800, Amos Kong wrote: > > When input some invialid word 'unknowcmd' through QMP port, qemu outputs this > error message: > "parse error: invalid keyword `%s'" > This patch makes qemu output the content of invalid keyword, like: > "parse error: invalid keyword `

KVM guest interrupts, traps, and, exceptions

2010-03-27 Thread Pekka Enberg
Hi Avi, I'm continuing my journey through the KVM API documentation and I'm now scratching my head on how interrupts, traps, and exceptions are supported by the API. I see KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP and KVM_IRQ_LINE but I'm unable to work out how the host is notified of such events. For example, if t

Re: KVM guest interrupts, traps, and, exceptions

2010-03-27 Thread Alexander Graf
On 27.03.2010, at 16:43, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Hi Avi, > > I'm continuing my journey through the KVM API documentation and I'm now > scratching my head on how interrupts, traps, and exceptions are supported by > the API. I see KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP and KVM_IRQ_LINE but I'm unable to work out > h

Re: KVM guest interrupts, traps, and, exceptions

2010-03-27 Thread Pekka Enberg
Hi Alexander, Alexander Graf wrote: I'm continuing my journey through the KVM API documentation and I'm now scratching my head on how interrupts, traps, and exceptions are supported by the API. I see KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP and KVM_IRQ_LINE but I'm unable to work out how the host is notified of su

Re: KVM guest interrupts, traps, and, exceptions

2010-03-27 Thread Alexander Graf
On 27.03.2010, at 17:42, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Hi Alexander, > > Alexander Graf wrote: >>> I'm continuing my journey through the KVM API documentation and I'm now >>> scratching my head on how interrupts, traps, and exceptions are supported >>> by the API. I see KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP and KVM_IRQ_

Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] Shared memory uio_pci driver

2010-03-27 Thread Avi Kivity
On 03/26/2010 07:14 PM, Cam Macdonell wrote: I'm not familiar with the uio internals, but for the interface, an ioctl() on the fd to assign an eventfd to an MSI vector. Similar to ioeventfd, but instead of mapping a doorbell to an eventfd, it maps a real MSI to an eventfd. uio will neve

Re: [patch 1/8] test: allow functions to execute on non-irq context remotely

2010-03-27 Thread Avi Kivity
On 03/25/2010 08:07 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 06:25:56PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: On 03/24/2010 11:24 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: Which allows code to execute on remote cpus while receiving interrupts. Also move late smp initialization to common code, and the