From: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, markmc@redhat.com, xiantao.zhang@intel.com,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [v2] linux: virtio: Standardize virtio's concept of "page size"
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:18:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1226423909.458.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200811112347.27844.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 23:47 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 November 2008 10:07:09 Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>
> > Both sides of the virtio interface must agree about how big a pfn
> really
>
> > is. This is particularly an issue on architectures where the page
> size is
>
> > configurable (e.g. PowerPC, IA64) -- the interface must be
> independent of
>
> > PAGE_SHIFT.
>
> Thanks Hollis! Applied, with the following overpatch:
Avi, will you commit the matching qemu patch? (I'm not clear on the
patch flow for kvm-userspace qemu virtio patches.)
--
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center
next parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-11 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <fa3de103a4e7d70354e0.1226360229@localhost.localdomain>
[not found] ` <200811112347.27844.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-11-11 17:18 ` Hollis Blanchard [this message]
2008-11-11 17:21 ` [PATCH] [v2] linux: virtio: Standardize virtio's concept of "page size" Avi Kivity
2008-11-12 12:21 ` Rusty Russell
[not found] ` <200811122251.14159.rusty-8n+1lVoiYb80n/F98K4Iww@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-12 16:16 ` Hollis Blanchard
2008-11-12 22:14 ` Rusty Russell
2008-11-13 21:48 ` Hollis Blanchard
[not found] ` <1226612913.5339.42.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-14 1:27 ` Rusty Russell
[not found] ` <200811130844.57749.rusty-8n+1lVoiYb80n/F98K4Iww@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-13 21:49 ` Hollis Blanchard
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