Avi Kivity wrote:
>
> So the plan is:
> - get the /dev/kvm ABI into 2.6.22
> - implement smp
> - add another arch
> - move to a syscall based interface in parallel; userspace should work
> with both
> - deprecate the old ABI and external modules.
I would also like to add using arbitrary vmas as g
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 06:02:57PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Heiko Carstens wrote:
> I agree with all of the above, and in addition, integration to the
> scheduler will allow us to reduce vcpu migration rate, and maybe do
> things like gang scheduling.
>
> But that doesn't mean it can be done now
Heiko Carstens wrote:
>> Right. I agree it's more natural to associate a vcpu with a task
>> instead of a vcpu being an independent entry. We'd still need a
>> handle for it, and in Linux that's an fd (pid doesn't cut it as it's
>> racy, and probably slower too as it has to go through a global st
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:42:00PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Heiko Carstens wrote:
> >In addition, if we would port kvm to s390, then we would need to
> >make sure that each virtual cpu only gets executed from the thread
> >that created it. That is simply because the upper half of our page
> >tabl
Heiko Carstens wrote:
>>>
>>>
>> What benefit would a syscall interface have?
>>
>
> Another thing is that this patch set already introduces a way to pass a
> sigset. Passing a sigset to a device node is sort of strange.
>
The sigset is passed to the device node just for safekeepi
Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 07:20:57AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> Heiko Carstens wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 03:53:12PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>>
>>>
This patchset updates the kvm userspace interface to what I hope will
be the long-term
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 07:20:57AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Heiko Carstens wrote:
> >On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 03:53:12PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >
> >>This patchset updates the kvm userspace interface to what I hope will
> >>be the long-term stable interface. Provisions are included for exte
Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 03:53:12PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> This patchset updates the kvm userspace interface to what I hope will
>> be the long-term stable interface. Provisions are included for extending
>> the interface later. The patches address performance and
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:03:08AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Heiko Carstens wrote:
> >On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 03:53:12PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >
> >>This patchset updates the kvm userspace interface to what I hope will
> >>be the long-term stable interface. Provisions are included for
Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 03:53:12PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> This patchset updates the kvm userspace interface to what I hope will
>> be the long-term stable interface. Provisions are included for extending
>> the interface later. The patches address performance and
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 03:53:12PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> This patchset updates the kvm userspace interface to what I hope will
> be the long-term stable interface. Provisions are included for extending
> the interface later. The patches address performance and cleanliness
> concerns.
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This patchset updates the kvm userspace interface to what I hope will
be the long-term stable interface. Provisions are included for extending
the interface later. The patches address performance and cleanliness
concerns.
One patch is missing -- I'd like the string pio transfers not to include
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