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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] vring: Replace mmap() interface with ioctl()
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:20:59 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4853D3CB.4090709@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200806141902.54119.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Rusty Russell wrote:
> BTW, including base and limit makes sense.  I didn't do this to start since 
> Avi doesn't want to guarentee kvm's guest mapping linear (of course he's only 
> doing this so he can fix it later).
>   

And also, because memory hotplug and 64-bit PCI BARs require reserving 
an infinite virtual address space range.  Not to mention that someone 
needs to update the dirty bitmap in case we're live migrating.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-14 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-13 13:57 [PATCH 0/0][RFC] KVM use of vringfd Mark McLoughlin
2008-06-13 13:57 ` [PATCH 1/5] vring: Replace mmap() interface with ioctl() Mark McLoughlin
2008-06-13 13:57   ` [PATCH 2/5] lguest: Use VRINGSETINFO ioctl() instead of mmap() Mark McLoughlin
2008-06-13 13:57     ` [PATCH 3/5] kvm: qemu: Publish last_avail index in the ring Mark McLoughlin
2008-06-13 13:58       ` [PATCH 4/5] kvm: qemu: Use vringfd to eliminate copies Mark McLoughlin
2008-06-13 13:58         ` [PATCH 5/5] kvm: qemu: Add support for partial csums and GSO Mark McLoughlin
2008-06-14 23:28         ` [PATCH 4/5] kvm: qemu: Use vringfd to eliminate copies Anthony Liguori
2008-06-16  2:10           ` Rusty Russell
2008-06-16 14:02             ` Anthony Liguori
2008-06-16 14:58               ` Avi Kivity
2008-06-18  5:43               ` Rusty Russell
2008-06-18 14:01             ` Avi Kivity
2008-06-17 14:08           ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-06-17 14:54             ` Anthony Liguori
2008-06-17 15:45               ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-06-13 14:09   ` [PATCH 1/5] vring: Replace mmap() interface with ioctl() Avi Kivity
2008-06-17 12:19     ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-06-18 14:05       ` Avi Kivity
2008-06-14  9:02   ` Rusty Russell
2008-06-14 14:20     ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-06-14 23:23       ` Anthony Liguori
2008-06-15 15:24         ` Avi Kivity
2008-06-15 19:13           ` Anthony Liguori

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