From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joerg Roedel Subject: Re: swapping with MMU Notifiers V2 Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:38:50 +0100 Message-ID: <20080130143850.GF12094@8bytes.org> References: <20080129145021.GJ7233@v2.random> <479F50D6.4020005@de.ibm.com> <479F532C.1020503@qumranet.com> <479F55D6.1090807@de.ibm.com> <20080129181918.GA6344@8bytes.org> <47A04816.4090408@de.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, Andrea Arcangeli , Avi Kivity To: carsteno-tA70FqPdS9bQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47A04816.4090408-tA70FqPdS9bQT0dZR+AlfA@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 Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 10:49:10AM +0100, Carsten Otte wrote: > Joerg Roedel wrote: > >Since NPT uses the host page table format it is in theory possible to > >add the pagetable to the Linux MM rmap. In this case it would not be > >necessary to use MMU notifiers. But I think this would complicate the > >NPT support code significantly. > I was hoping for a "nearest neighbour" to s390 in kvm. You really > should consider going that way in ends up way simpler :-). Maybe you > should look over the s390 kvm port when we post it in a few weeks from > now ;-). Yes, I will definitly have a look at the port. I am curious how paging works on s390 :-) Joerg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/