From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joerg Roedel Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8 v3] KVM support for 1GB pages Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:17:50 +0200 Message-ID: <20090629131749.GO5139@amd.com> References: <1245417389-5527-1-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com> <4A41E714.5070701@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from outbound-dub.frontbridge.com ([213.199.154.16]:33080 "EHLO IE1EHSOBE001.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750755AbZF2NSD convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:18:03 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A41E714.5070701@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:43:00AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 06/19/2009 04:16 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote: >> Hi, >> >> this is the third version of the patches for KVM to support 1GB page= s. Changes >> to the last version include: >> >> - changed reporting of 1GB page support to userspace to use >> SUPPORTED_CPUID ioctl >> - added support for 1GB pages to the software page walker code too >> >> This code still only can make use of 1GB pages with nested paging en= abled. I >> will give the shadow paging code another debug round soon. Please co= mment or >> consider to apply these patches. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Joerg >> >> Shortlog: >> >> Joerg Roedel (8): >> hugetlbfs: export vma_kernel_pagsize to modules >> kvm: change memslot data structures for multiple hugepage siz= es >> =20 > > At Marcelo's suggestion I've applied the first two patches, to reduce= your > rebase load. Thank you. I will soon fix your objection on the existing patches and r= esend them. After that I continue to look at gbpages with shadow paging again= =2E Joerg --=20 | Advanced Micro Devices GmbH Operating | Karl-Hammerschmidt-Str. 34, 85609 Dornach bei M=FCnchen System |=20 Research | Gesch=E4ftsf=FChrer: Thomas M. McCoy, Giuliano Meroni Center | Sitz: Dornach, Gemeinde Aschheim, Landkreis M=FCnchen | Registergericht M=FCnchen, HRB Nr. 43632