From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38206) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZiSR-0002pn-7G for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:52:28 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZiSP-0008PN-8E for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:52:27 -0400 Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de ([217.72.192.227]:33540) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZiSO-0008PG-LL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:52:25 -0400 Message-ID: <4E0328F6.5020801@web.de> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:52:22 +0200 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4E031F69.30407@redhat.com> <4E032605.9050009@web.de> <4E03271D.4040806@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4E03271D.4040806@redhat.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig2E632501E77AFF7CA3C8BD89" Sender: jan.kiszka@web.de Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/13] vga: dirty log cleanup, more linear mapping List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Avi Kivity Cc: Anthony PERARD , Anthony Liguori , Gerd Hoffmann , qemu-devel , "Michael S. Tsirkin" This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig2E632501E77AFF7CA3C8BD89 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2011-06-23 13:44, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 06/23/2011 02:39 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> On 2011-06-23 13:11, Avi Kivity wrote: >> > On 06/14/2011 07:53 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> >> A few optimizations and cleanups I came across when trying to >> speed up >> >> slow graphical grub unter non-cirrus vga. This series >> >> - eliminates log_start/stop CPUPhysMemoryClient callbacks >> >> - accelerates chain 4 vga mode under KVM >> >> - fixes reset of vmware-vga >> >> - cleans up vmware-vga a bit >> >> >> >> At least patch 8 is a candiate for 0.15 and stable. >> > >> > Yikes, most is all going away with the memory API (except the extra= >> > acceleration). >> >> Can't follow yet. What goes away? >=20 > All the games with starting and stopping the log. That's what this series does as well (among other things). That the new API will look different for the devices is clear, also that it may differ on the listener side. But if your API will not need any kind of explicit start/stop callbacks for memory clients, then we are moving in the right direction. > Now you start the log > on the vram memory region and all the aliases, maps/unmaps, and mode > changes are handled automatically. >=20 > But I didn't get the patches yet, so no idea how much overlap. The patches were already sent last week, see [1] for the full history. Jan [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/106150 --------------enig2E632501E77AFF7CA3C8BD89 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk4DKPYACgkQitSsb3rl5xQCggCfZ9BghPUjhfilPdTNLYiLkuzp f6sAoJ9/BCmBsnTndO2vnwLthEp6QyUz =v8PB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig2E632501E77AFF7CA3C8BD89--