From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] RFC use dirty bit for page dirty tracking (v2) Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:11:01 +0300 Message-ID: <4A52D8E5.604@redhat.com> References: <1244651005-18322-1-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <20090615145836.GI28278@us.ibm.com> <4A366679.9020604@redhat.com> <20090707033202.GN11590@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Izik Eidus , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Ryan Harper Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:57025 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751253AbZGGFKr (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jul 2009 01:10:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090707033202.GN11590@us.ibm.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/07/2009 06:32 AM, Ryan Harper wrote: > * Avi Kivity [2009-06-15 10:19]: > >> On 06/15/2009 05:58 PM, Ryan Harper wrote: >> >>> * Izik Eidus [2009-06-10 11:25]: >>> >>> >>>> RFC move to dirty bit tracking using the page table dirty bit (v2) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Where is this series at? Did you want me to test one of the ept dirty >>> tracking patches for that hugepage+ept+local migration bug? >>> >>> >> The first patch (which might cure your oops) is already in qemu-kvm.git, >> please test it out. >> > > Sorry for taking forever on this... current upstream kvm modules from > kvm-kmod.git are working fine for this. I believe the final patch that > was committed: > > commit e244584fe3a5c20deddeca246548ac86dbc6e1d1 > Author: Izik Eidus > Date: Wed Jun 10 19:23:24 2009 +0300 > > KVM: Fix dirty bit tracking for slots with large pages > > > did the trick. Should this get pulled back into any of the stable > trees? > > It's in 2.6.30.1 and hopefully on its way to the other trees. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.