From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Otte Subject: Re: [kvm-ppc-devel] RFC/patch portability: split kvm_vm_ioctl v2 Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:04:12 +0100 Message-ID: <472593FC.3070807@de.ibm.com> References: <1192192452.7630.16.camel@cotte.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <1193327325.8345.9.camel@cotte.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <1193327326.3284.2.camel@izike-woof.qumranet.com> <1193329322.28279.21.camel@basalt> <472114B6.6080000@qumranet.com> <1193345465.28279.47.camel@basalt> <4721A185.1070808@qumranet.com> <4721A3A3.8020504@de.ibm.com> <1193409325.4264.10.camel@diesel> <4721FD2A.6070504@de.ibm.com> <47223A85.5020409@qumranet.com> Reply-To: carsteno-tA70FqPdS9bQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-ppc-devel , Hollis Blanchard , carsteno-tA70FqPdS9bQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, Avi Kivity , "kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org" , "Zhang, Xiantao" To: Izik Eidus Return-path: In-Reply-To: <47223A85.5020409-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@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 Izik Eidus wrote: > my idea was to let kvm register userspace memory that will hold the > guest memory, > and then much like qemu do with its cpu_register_physical_memory > function, run ioctls > that will tell the kernel how to map this memory, > what i wanted to achieved is making the memory allocation code shared, > but still > let each arch to use any kind of "arch depended" mapping rules it want, > but after reading the last posts it seems like you can use the normal > memslots, so it is kind of useless i guess and i will > give up the idea of writing patch to make this, unless you still have > problem with the memslots? Looks like we shared the same misunderstanding about the current memslot implementation *shaking hands*. After being educated on memslots by Avi, I agree that memslots do the right thing. cheers, Carsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/