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

2015-09-12 Thread Alexander Graf
> Am 12.09.2015 um 18:47 schrieb 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

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' tree in the ne

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 and should g

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

2015-09-06 Thread Paul Mackerras
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' tree in the next couple of days. Paul. -- To unsubscr

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 improvements in tigh

[PULL 09/12] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Implement H_CLEAR_REF and H_CLEAR_MOD

2015-08-22 Thread Alexander Graf
From: Paul Mackerras This adds implementations for the H_CLEAR_REF (test and clear reference bit) and H_CLEAR_MOD (test and clear changed bit) hypercalls. When clearing the reference or change bit in the guest view of the HPTE, we also have to clear it in the real HPTE so that we can detect futu

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

[PATCH 5/5] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Implement H_CLEAR_REF and H_CLEAR_MOD

2015-06-24 Thread Paul Mackerras
This adds implementations for the H_CLEAR_REF (test and clear reference bit) and H_CLEAR_MOD (test and clear changed bit) hypercalls. When clearing the reference or change bit in the guest view of the HPTE, we also have to clear it in the real HPTE so that we can detect future references or change

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

2015-04-23 Thread Paul Mackerras
This adds implementations for the H_CLEAR_REF (test and clear reference bit) and H_CLEAR_MOD (test and clear changed bit) hypercalls. When clearing the reference or change bit in the guest view of the HPTE, we also have to clear it in the real HPTE so that we can detect future references or change

Re: H_CLEAR_REF and H_CLEAR_MOD

2015-04-14 Thread Paul Mackerras
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 > >>>>management in the

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

Re: H_CLEAR_REF and H_CLEAR_MOD

2015-02-18 Thread Paul Mackerras
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 memor

Re: H_CLEAR_REF and H_CLEAR_MOD

2015-02-18 Thread Alexander Graf
> 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 management in the > FreeBSD kernel (and are marked "mandatory" in the PAPR man

Re: [PATCH 5/5] KVM: PPC: Book3s HV: Implement H_CLEAR_REF and H_CLEAR_MOD hcalls

2011-12-23 Thread Alexander Graf
On 15.12.2011, at 13:04, Paul Mackerras wrote: > This adds implementations for the H_CLEAR_REF (test and clear reference > bit) and H_CLEAR_MOD (test and clear changed bit) hypercalls. These > hypercalls are not used by Linux guests at this stage, and these > implementations are only compile tes