From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v2 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:42:55 -0500 Message-ID: <20080116124256.44033d48@bree.surriel.com> References: <20080113162418.GE8736@v2.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , steiner-sJ/iWh9BUns@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Avi Kivity , linux-mm-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org, daniel.blueman-xqY44rlHlBpWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org, holt-sJ/iWh9BUns@public.gmane.org, Hugh Dickins , clameter-sJ/iWh9BUns@public.gmane.org To: Andrea Arcangeli Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080113162418.GE8736-lysg2Xt5kKMAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:24:18 +0100 Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > In my basic initial patch I only track the tlb flushes which should be > the minimum required to have a nice linux-VM controlled swapping > behavior of the KVM gphysical memory. I have a vaguely related question on KVM swapping. Do page accesses inside KVM guests get propagated to the host OS, so Linux can choose a reasonable page for eviction, or is the pageout of KVM guest pages essentially random? -- All rights reversed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/