From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcelo Tosatti Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] KVM: remove host and guest pv mmu support Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:50:33 -0200 Message-ID: <20111021155033.GB13597@amt.cnet> References: <20111021004423.GM12280@sequoia.sous-sol.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kivity To: Chris Wright Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:4947 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751847Ab1JUPvr (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:51:47 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111021004423.GM12280@sequoia.sous-sol.org> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 05:44:23PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > This feature hasn't been in use for some years now. The host side bits > are deprecated for almost a year. The guest side would only get used > on old hosts, and it's slower than shadow or hw assisted paging. > > Time to remove it. > > Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 9 -- > arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 13 -- > arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 181 ---------------------------- > arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 135 --------------------- > arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 12 -- > 5 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 350 deletions(-) Looks good to me.