From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org,
Jerone Young <jyoung5-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
Hollis Blanchard
<hollisb-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use a table to dispatch IO requests in kvmctl
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:14:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <470C7BDC.7020106@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11919660094186-git-send-email-aliguori-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Anthony Liguori wrote:
> This patch attempts to clean up kvmctl so that it can be more easily made to
> work for multiple architectures and to support more emulation.
>
> It introduces a io dispatch mechanism. This mechanism supports subpage
> granularity but is optimized to efficiently cover regions of pages too. It's
> a 64-bit address space that's structured as a 5-level table.
>
Why not use a simple array?
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Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-10 7:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-09 21:40 [PATCH] Use a table to dispatch IO requests in kvmctl Anthony Liguori
[not found] ` <11919660094186-git-send-email-aliguori-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-09 22:10 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-10-10 6:46 ` Hollis Blanchard
2007-10-10 7:14 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
[not found] ` <470C7BDC.7020106-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-10 13:24 ` Anthony Liguori
[not found] ` <470CD298.8060704-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-10 13:25 ` Avi Kivity
[not found] ` <470CD2CD.5090903-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-10 13:42 ` Anthony Liguori
[not found] ` <470CD6D3.8080805-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-10 13:47 ` Avi Kivity
[not found] ` <470CD7EA.3040500-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-10 13:59 ` Anthony Liguori
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