On 09.09.2013, at 11:38, Michael Neuling wrote:
> Alexander Graf wrote:
>
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>> On 09.09.2013, at 09:28, Michael Neuling wrote:
>>
At present, PR KVM and BookE KVM does multiple copies of FP and
related state because of the way that they use the arrays in the
thread_struct as a
Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> On 09.09.2013, at 09:28, Michael Neuling wrote:
>
> >> At present, PR KVM and BookE KVM does multiple copies of FP and
> >> related state because of the way that they use the arrays in the
> >> thread_struct as an intermediate staging post for the state. They do
> >>
On 09.09.2013, at 09:28, Michael Neuling wrote:
>> At present, PR KVM and BookE KVM does multiple copies of FP and
>> related state because of the way that they use the arrays in the
>> thread_struct as an intermediate staging post for the state. They do
>> this so that they can use the existing
> At present, PR KVM and BookE KVM does multiple copies of FP and
> related state because of the way that they use the arrays in the
> thread_struct as an intermediate staging post for the state. They do
> this so that they can use the existing system functions for loading
> and saving state, and
> -Original Message-
> From: Paul Mackerras [mailto:pau...@samba.org]
> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013 3:08 PM
> To: Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
> Cc: Alexander Graf; Benjamin Herrenschmidt; kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org;
> k...@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC
On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 08:37:24AM +, Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008 wrote:
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> Nice work Paul! What do you suggest for KVM BookE AltiVec v2 patchset,
> should I wait for this RFC or should I go ahead with the version based
> on the existing infrastructure?
It's really up to you and whether you
bject: [PATCH RFC 0/5] Eliminate double-copying of FP/VMX/VSX state
>
> At present, PR KVM and BookE KVM does multiple copies of FP and
> related state because of the way that they use the arrays in the
> thread_struct as an intermediate staging post for the state. They do
> this so t
At present, PR KVM and BookE KVM does multiple copies of FP and
related state because of the way that they use the arrays in the
thread_struct as an intermediate staging post for the state. They do
this so that they can use the existing system functions for loading
and saving state, and so that th
