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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>
-- 
1.6.5.3


             reply	other threads:[~2010-01-26 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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