From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] kvm: Transcendent Memory (tmem) on KVM Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:48:28 -0400 Message-ID: <20120315164828.GK30250@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <1331224181.2585.16.camel@aks> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dan Magenheimer , kvm@vger.kernel.org, ashu tripathi , nishant gulhane , amarmore2006 , Shreyas Mahure , mahesh mohan To: Akshay Karle Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1331224181.2585.16.camel@aks> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org > --- > kvm-tmem Patch details: > This patch adds appropriate shims at the guest that invokes the kvm > hypercalls, and the host uses zcache pools to implement the required > functions. > > To enable tmem on the 'kvm host' add the boot parameter: > "kvmtmem" > And to enable tmem in the 'kvm guests' add the boot parameter: > "tmem" > > The diffstat details for this patch are given below: > arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 > arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 4 > drivers/staging/zcache/Makefile | 2 > drivers/staging/zcache/kvm-tmem.c | 356 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/staging/zcache/kvm-tmem.h | 55 +++++ > drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c | 98 ++++++++- > include/linux/kvm_para.h | 1 > 7 files changed, 508 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > > We have already uploaded our work alongwith the 'Frontswap' submitted by Dan, > on the following link: > https://github.com/akshaykarle/kvm-tmem Is there a way for these patches to be posted on LKML? It is rather difficult to copy-n-paste patches in emails and sending them. Or if you want to, you can email them directly to me. To do that use 'git send-email' and 'git format-patch' to prep the git commits into patches. Also, the title says 'RFC 0/2' but I am not seing 1 or 2?