From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: add KVM_SYNC_SHADOW_WITH_USER ioctl (v2) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:28:51 -0600 Message-ID: <47892303.6030602@us.ibm.com> References: <20080109181743.GB303@dmt> <47891C10.8060803@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , kvm-devel To: Avi Kivity Return-path: In-Reply-To: <47891C10.8060803-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 Avi Kivity wrote: > Marcelo Tosatti wrote: >> Export nukeing of shadow MMU pages through an ioctl, required for >> consistency on balloon inflate. >> >> > > With mmu notifiers (posted two minutes after this) shadow is > implicitly synced with userspace. Since it seems to be progressing > rapidly, I won't apply this patch in the hope that mmu notifiers can > be ready for 2.6.25. Does that mean that we'll only support ballooning on host kernels > 2.6.25 are you going to do judo with debug registers to implement it for older kernels? Regards, Anthony Liguori ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace