From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Izik Eidus Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Swapping Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 08:12:33 +0200 Message-ID: <4711B351.3080700@qumranet.com> References: <47102919.6070802@qumranet.com> <471124D4.3090901@codemonkey.ws> <471126D9.4030204@qumranet.com> <47112D66.4020500@qumranet.com> <47115207.3090909@codemonkey.ws> <4711542F.2060306@qumranet.com> <4711563D.8020000@codemonkey.ws> <471156D9.3030700@qumranet.com> <47116486.4070609@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: In-Reply-To: <47116486.4070609-rdkfGonbjUSkNkDKm+mE6A@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 Anthony Liguori wrote: > Izik Eidus wrote: >> Anthony Liguori wrote: >>> >>> I think it's just a matter of calling do_mmap() with the appropriate >>> parameters. It looks likes there's some drivers call do_mmap() >>> directly. >>> >> yea, i think you right, this is excellent idea!, when we will merge >> the swapping to kvm, we will add swapping support to older userspace. > > Here's a patch against your series. The memset in kvmctl ends up > making the guest use all physical memory to start off with but I did > confirm that once the system is under memory pressure, the guest's > memory becomes swappable. Of course, it's quite painful :-) > > A nice thing though is that a lot of the code becomes a bit cleaner > and we can eliminate the phys_mem array entirely. > > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori > > great, this sound good, i will test it as soon as i can :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/