Re: [kvm-devel] Demand paging for memory regions

2008-02-13 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:43 pm Kanoj Sarcar wrote: > Oh ok, yes, I did see the discussion on this; sorry I > missed it. I do see what notifiers bring to the table > now (without endorsing it :-)). > > An orthogonal question is this: is IB/rdma the only > "culprit" that elevates page refcou

Re: [kvm-devel] Demand paging for memory regions (was Re: MMU Notifiers V6)

2008-02-12 Thread Steve Wise
Roland Dreier wrote: > [Adding [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get the IB/RDMA people involved] > > This thread has patches that add support for notifying drivers when a > process's memory map changes. The hope is that this is useful for > letting RDMA devices handle registered memory without pinning the >

Re: [kvm-devel] Demand paging for memory regions (was Re: MMU Notifiers V6)

2008-02-12 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Steve Wise wrote: > Chelsio's T3 HW doesn't support this. Not so far I guess but it could be equipped with these features right? Having the VM manage the memory area for Infiniband allows more reliable system operations and enables the sharing of large memory areas via In

[kvm-devel] Demand paging for memory regions (was Re: MMU Notifiers V6)

2008-02-11 Thread Roland Dreier
[Adding [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get the IB/RDMA people involved] This thread has patches that add support for notifying drivers when a process's memory map changes. The hope is that this is useful for letting RDMA devices handle registered memory without pinning the underlying pages, by updating the