From: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, hollisb@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] kvmppc: convert wrteei to wrtee as kvm guest optimization
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:08:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48AE73E2.2010706@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080821161622.GB15669@ld0162-tx32.am.freescale.net>
Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 09:21:39AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
>> Where is the other discussion? I'd like to understand what's going on
>> here.. (especially since I added the wrtee[i] changes to kernel way
>> back when).
>>
>
> Presumably, they want to be able to replace wrtee with a store to a
> hypervisor/guest shared memory area, and there's no store-immediate
> instruction.
>
> -Scott
>
Exactly Scott
And for your question Kumar, in the last submission I was asked to split
host and guest patches.
So the host discussion lives on kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org as I mentioned
(maybe a bit too hidden)
in the [0/4] mail of this series.
--
Grüsse / regards,
Christian Ehrhardt
IBM Linux Technology Center, Open Virtualization
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From: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, hollisb@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] kvmppc: convert wrteei to wrtee as kvm guest optimization
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:08:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48AE73E2.2010706@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080821161622.GB15669@ld0162-tx32.am.freescale.net>
Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 09:21:39AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
>> Where is the other discussion? I'd like to understand what's going on
>> here.. (especially since I added the wrtee[i] changes to kernel way
>> back when).
>>
>
> Presumably, they want to be able to replace wrtee with a store to a
> hypervisor/guest shared memory area, and there's no store-immediate
> instruction.
>
> -Scott
>
Exactly Scott
And for your question Kumar, in the last submission I was asked to split
host and guest patches.
So the host discussion lives on kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org as I mentioned
(maybe a bit too hidden)
in the [0/4] mail of this series.
--
Grüsse / regards,
Christian Ehrhardt
IBM Linux Technology Center, Open Virtualization
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-22 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-19 10:36 [PATCH 0/4][RFC] kvmppc: paravirtualization interface - guest part v2 ehrhardt
2008-08-19 10:36 ` ehrhardt
2008-08-19 10:36 ` [PATCH 1/4] kvmppc: read device tree hypervisor node infrastructure ehrhardt
2008-08-19 10:36 ` ehrhardt
2008-08-19 11:52 ` [PATCH 1/4] kvmppc: read device tree hypervisor node Josh Boyer
2008-08-19 11:52 ` [PATCH 1/4] kvmppc: read device tree hypervisor node infrastructure Josh Boyer
2008-08-19 11:56 ` [PATCH 1/4] kvmppc: read device tree hypervisor node Josh Boyer
2008-08-19 11:56 ` [PATCH 1/4] kvmppc: read device tree hypervisor node infrastructure Josh Boyer
2008-08-19 10:36 ` [PATCH 2/4] kvmppc: add hypercall infrastructure - guest part ehrhardt
2008-08-19 10:36 ` ehrhardt
2008-08-19 11:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-19 11:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-20 12:41 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2008-08-20 12:41 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2008-08-21 22:25 ` Hollis Blanchard
2008-08-21 22:25 ` Hollis Blanchard
2008-08-22 10:38 ` Kumar Gala
2008-08-22 10:38 ` Kumar Gala
2008-08-22 14:00 ` Hollis Blanchard
2008-08-22 14:00 ` Hollis Blanchard
2008-08-19 10:36 ` [PATCH 3/4] kvmppc: magic page paravirtualization " ehrhardt
2008-08-19 10:36 ` ehrhardt
2008-08-20 2:29 ` Tony Breeds
2008-08-20 2:29 ` Tony Breeds
2008-08-19 10:36 ` [PATCH 4/4] kvmppc: convert wrteei to wrtee as kvm guest optimization ehrhardt
2008-08-19 10:36 ` ehrhardt
2008-08-19 11:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-19 11:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-20 12:53 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2008-08-20 12:53 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2008-08-20 18:30 ` [PATCH 4/4] kvmppc: convert wrteei to wrtee as kvm guest Hollis Blanchard
2008-08-20 18:30 ` [PATCH 4/4] kvmppc: convert wrteei to wrtee as kvm guest optimization Hollis Blanchard
2008-08-20 18:52 ` [PATCH 4/4] kvmppc: convert wrteei to wrtee as kvm guest Josh Boyer
2008-08-20 18:52 ` [PATCH 4/4] kvmppc: convert wrteei to wrtee as kvm guest optimization Josh Boyer
2008-08-20 19:06 ` [PATCH 4/4] kvmppc: convert wrteei to wrtee as kvm guest Hollis Blanchard
2008-08-20 19:06 ` [PATCH 4/4] kvmppc: convert wrteei to wrtee as kvm guest optimization Hollis Blanchard
2008-08-20 19:18 ` [PATCH 4/4] kvmppc: convert wrteei to wrtee as kvm guest Josh Boyer
2008-08-20 19:18 ` [PATCH 4/4] kvmppc: convert wrteei to wrtee as kvm guest optimization Josh Boyer
2008-08-21 13:31 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2008-08-21 13:31 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2008-08-21 13:41 ` Kumar Gala
2008-08-21 13:41 ` Kumar Gala
2008-08-21 14:13 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2008-08-21 14:13 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2008-08-21 14:21 ` Kumar Gala
2008-08-21 14:21 ` Kumar Gala
2008-08-21 16:16 ` Scott Wood
2008-08-21 16:16 ` Scott Wood
2008-08-22 8:08 ` Christian Ehrhardt [this message]
2008-08-22 8:08 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2008-08-22 8:17 ` Kumar Gala
2008-08-22 8:17 ` Kumar Gala
2008-08-22 13:56 ` Jimi Xenidis
2008-08-22 13:56 ` Jimi Xenidis
2008-08-22 15:49 ` Scott Wood
2008-08-22 15:49 ` Scott Wood
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