Re: [PATCH RFC v2 0/6] KVM: moving dirty gitmaps to user space!

[Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>]

(2010/04/20 19:54), Alexander Graf wrote:
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> On 20.04.2010, at 12:53, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
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>> Hi, this is the v2 of the "moving dirty gitmaps to user space!"
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>> By this patch, I think everything we need becomes clear.
>> So we want to step forward to be ready for the final version in the
>> near future: of course, this is dependent on x86 and ppc asm issues.
>>
>> BTW, by whom I can get ACK for ppc and ia64? I want to add to the Cc
>> list if possible, thank you.
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> You'd get the ACK for ppc from me.

Thank you, then I will add you to Cc next time!

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> Do you have a PowerPC box around to test things on? By now it should work on any desktop/server PowerPC system you can find.

Sorry, I have no ppc box here. So at this stage, I am sometimes using cross
compilers to check this can build or not: not enough test now.

And this patch needs arch specific(assembly level) optimization in the future.
So I want to make this development as open as possible.

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> Also the only differences on PPC are that we are big endian and usually run 32 bit userspace on 64 bit kernels. So playing with longs is a bad idea :).

OK, I'll keep in mind!

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> Alex
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   Takuya