On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> Then I will have to update KVM so that it will free the kvm structure
> after waiting a quiescent point to avoid kernel crashing memory
> corruption after applying your changes to the mmu notifier.
It may not be suitable (I've not looked into your
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> I think we can get rid of this rwlock as I think this will seriously
> hurt larger machines.
Correct.
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On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 08:28:47PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> I think we can get rid of this rwlock as I think this will seriously
> hurt larger machines.
Yep, I initially considered it, nevertheless given you solved part of
the complication I can add it now ;). The only technical reason for
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 13:52 +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> diff --git a/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h b/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
> new file mode 100644
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
> +#ifndef _LINUX_MMU_NOTIFIER_H
> +#define _LINUX_MMU_NOTIFIER_H
>
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 04:12:34PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
>> --- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
>> +++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
>> @@ -44,8 +44,10 @@
>> ({
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -44,8 +44,10 @@
({ \
int __young;
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -44,8 +44,10 @@
({ \
int __young;
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 04:12:34PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -44,8 +44,10 @@
({
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 13:52 +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
diff --git a/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h b/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+#ifndef _LINUX_MMU_NOTIFIER_H
+#define _LINUX_MMU_NOTIFIER_H
+
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
I think we can get rid of this rwlock as I think this will seriously
hurt larger machines.
Correct.
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On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 08:28:47PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
I think we can get rid of this rwlock as I think this will seriously
hurt larger machines.
Yep, I initially considered it, nevertheless given you solved part of
the complication I can add it now ;). The only technical reason for
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
Then I will have to update KVM so that it will free the kvm structure
after waiting a quiescent point to avoid kernel crashing memory
corruption after applying your changes to the mmu notifier.
It may not be suitable (I've not looked into your
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]>
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 08:32:52PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> To make this work we still need notification from the VM about memory
> pressure [..]
Ok I thought some more at the aging issue of the hot kvm pages (to
prevent the guest-OS very-hot working set to be swapped out). So I now
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 08:32:52PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
To make this work we still need notification from the VM about memory
pressure [..]
Ok I thought some more at the aging issue of the hot kvm pages (to
prevent the guest-OS very-hot working set to be swapped out). So I now
hooked
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]
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