From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH/RFC] KVM: Plan obsolescence of kernel allocated slots, paravirt mmu
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:34:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1264516474-11575-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> (raw)
These features are unused by modern userspace and can go away. Paravirt
mmu needs to stay a little longer for live migration.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
---
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 870d190..88ca110 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -493,3 +493,26 @@ Why: These two features use non-standard interfaces. There are the
Who: Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>
----------------------------
+What: KVM memory aliases support
+When: July 2010
+Why: Memory aliasing support is used for speeding up guest vga access
+ through the vga windows.
+
+ Modern userspace no longer uses this feature, so it's just bitrotted
+ code and can be removed with no impact.
+Who: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
+----------------------------
+What: KVM kernel-allocated memory slots
+When: July 2010
+Why: Since 2.6.25, kvm supports user-allocated memory slots, which are
+ much more flexible than kernel-allocated slots. All current userspace
+ supports the newer interface and this code can be removed with no
+ impact.
+Who: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
+----------------------------
+What: KVM paravirt mmu host support
+When: January 2011
+Why: The paravirt mmu host support is slower than non-paravirt mmu, both
+ on newer and older hardware. It is already not exposed to the guest,
+ and kept only for live migration purposes.
+Who: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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1.6.5.3
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2010-01-26 14:34 Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-01-27 17:23 ` [PATCH/RFC] KVM: Plan obsolescence of kernel allocated slots, paravirt mmu Marcelo Tosatti
2010-02-11 10:24 ` Avi Kivity
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