From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>, kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [patch 2/5] KVM: hypercall based pte updates and TLB flushes
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:00:52 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080218050052.GA5170@dmt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47B84B60.6020508@qumranet.com>
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 04:57:36PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > Issue is the paravirt_ops code in Linux does not cover all pte updates
> > (bit updates, ptep_get_and_clear, etc).
> >
> > The plan is to get the basic infrastructure merged into KVM first (which
> > is a significant improvement already) and then later have paravirt_ops
> > cover all updates, disabling write protection.
> >
>
> Okay, sounds good.
>
> Do you know if anyone is working on extending pv_ops as you describe?
Not that I'm aware of.
I was planning to do it. The first part of that is a mask based bit
update hypercall (ie. a non-broken version of the patch I posted earlier
which Jeremy replied to).
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20080216220924.733723618@redhat.com>
2008-02-16 22:09 ` [patch 1/5] KVM: add basic paravirt support Marcelo Tosatti
2008-02-16 22:09 ` [patch 2/5] KVM: hypercall based pte updates and TLB flushes Marcelo Tosatti
2008-02-16 22:09 ` [patch 3/5] KVM: hypercall batching Marcelo Tosatti
2008-02-16 22:09 ` [patch 4/5] KVM: ignore zapped root pagetables Marcelo Tosatti
2008-02-16 22:09 ` [patch 5/5] KVM: VMX cr3 cache support Marcelo Tosatti
2008-02-16 23:37 ` [patch 0/5] KVM paravirt MMU updates and cr3 caching Anthony Liguori
2008-02-17 2:24 ` Marcelo Tosatti
[not found] ` <20080216221220.843135254@redhat.com>
2008-02-17 8:28 ` [patch 2/5] KVM: hypercall based pte updates and TLB flushes Avi Kivity
2008-02-17 13:13 ` Avi Kivity
2008-02-17 14:51 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-02-17 14:57 ` Avi Kivity
2008-02-18 5:00 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2008-02-17 8:32 ` Avi Kivity
[not found] ` <20080216221220.924823582@redhat.com>
2008-02-17 8:40 ` [patch 3/5] KVM: hypercall batching Avi Kivity
2008-02-18 16:47 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-02-17 18:40 ` Hollis Blanchard
2008-02-18 8:06 ` Avi Kivity
2008-02-18 8:43 ` Christian Borntraeger
2008-02-18 8:47 ` Avi Kivity
[not found] ` <1203361276.3428.6.camel@basalt>
2008-02-19 8:30 ` Avi Kivity
[not found] ` <20080216221221.002948712@redhat.com>
2008-02-17 8:52 ` [patch 4/5] KVM: ignore zapped root pagetables Avi Kivity
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