From: Xiantao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 14:46:02 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] kvm: Let ioctl_get_regs suppot input pararmeters.
Since kvm_regs is allocated from kernel stack, and
its size is limited. In order to save large register
files of some archs, this API should accept input
I'm experimenting with kvm on a Fedora 8 system. I've installed the
necessary packages, have a suitable CPU etc. I'll eventually aim for
a Windows guest, but am trying out a virtual Fedora 8 guest. When I
try to install a Fedora guest, it threatens to wipe and re-partition
the whole drive. It does
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 09:14:57PM -0600, Jack Steiner wrote:
> Also, most (but not all) applications that use the GRU do not usually do
> anything that requires frequent flushing (fortunately). The GRU is intended
> for HPC-like applications. These don't usually do frequent map/unmap
> operations
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 03:17:04AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 11:23:57AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > Yes so your invalidate_range is still some sort of dysfunctional
> > optimization? Gazillions of invalidate_page's will have to be executed
> > when tearing d
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 05:35:28PM -0600, Robin Holt wrote:
> No, we need a callout when we are becoming more restrictive, but not
> when becoming more permissive. I would have to guess that is the case
> for any of these callouts. It is for both GRU and XPMEM. I would
> expect the same is true
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 11:23:57AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Yes so your invalidate_range is still some sort of dysfunctional
> optimization? Gazillions of invalidate_page's will have to be executed
> when tearing down large memory areas.
I don't know if gru can flush the external TLB re
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 09:04:39PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> - Has page tables to track pages whose refcount was elevated(?) but
> no reverse maps.
Just a correction, rmaps exists or swap couldn't be sane, it's just
that it's not built on the page_t because the guest memory is really
vir
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 07:58:40PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Ok. Andrea wanted the same because then he can void the begin callouts.
Exactly. I hope the page-pin will avoid me having to serialize the KVM
page fault against the start/end critical section.
BTW, I wonder if the start/end cri
Hi,All
This is today's KVM test result against kvm.git
f1ca151a368192b182a9f9e696e211e18927f040 and kvm-userspace.git
0088a24f6b38f534ae620e4c484d10aba4f5da96.
No new issue has been found.
Issue List:
1. smp windows installer crashes while rebooting
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=d
