Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 04 of 11] free-pgtables

2008-05-08 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 07 May 2008 16:35:54 +0200 Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 05 of 11] unmap vmas tlb flushing

2008-05-08 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 07 May 2008 16:35:55 +0200 Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 03 of 11] invalidate_page outside PT lock

2008-05-08 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 07 May 2008 16:35:53 +0200 Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # HG changeset patch > # User Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > # Date 1210115129 -7200 > # Node ID d60d200565abde6a8ed45271e53cde9c5c75b426 > # Parent c5badbefeee07518d9d1acca13e94c981420317c > invalidate_page

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 01 of 11] mmu-notifier-core

2008-05-08 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 07 May 2008 16:35:51 +0200 Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Rik van Riel &l

Re: [kvm-devel] [ofa-general] Re: [patch 0/6] MMU Notifiers V6

2008-02-09 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 18:16:16 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > The VM shouldn't break if try_to_unmap doesn't actually make the page > > freeable for whatever reason. Permanent pins shouldn't happen anyway, > > VM is livelo

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC][PATCH 2/5] add new exported function replace_page()

2008-01-23 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:10:50 +0200 Izik Eidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What prevents another CPU from freeing newpage while we run through the start of replace_page() ? -- All rights reversed. - This SF.net email is s

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC][PATCH 1/5] rmap: add new exported function: page_wrprotect()

2008-01-23 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:09:29 +0200 Izik Eidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- All rights reversed. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challe

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC][PATCH 0/5] Memory merging driver for Linux

2008-01-23 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:05:53 +0200 Izik Eidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i added 2 new functions to the kernel > one: > page_wrprotect() make the page as read only by setting the ptes point to > it as read only. > second: > replace_page() - replace the pte mapping related to vm area between two

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v3

2008-01-21 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:52:04 +0100 Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- All rights reversed.

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v2

2008-01-16 Thread Rik van Riel
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

Re: [kvm-devel] kvm & dyntick

2007-01-11 Thread Rik van Riel
Avi Kivity wrote: > dyntick-enabled guest: > - reduce the load on the host when the guest is idling > (currently an idle guest consumes a few percent cpu) You do not need dynticks for this actually. Simple no-tick-on-idle like Xen has works well enough. While you're modifying the timer code,