From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, aliguori@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] coalesce mmio regions with an explicit call
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:10:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48DA2022.8020807@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080923162233.GD3583@poweredge.glommer>
Glauber Costa wrote:
>> You can't coalesce the registers which trigger device action. You'll
>> destroy latency and/or functionality.
>>
>
> which kills the goal of getting rid of explicit kvm code.
>
>
It's a fact that coalescing helps kvm but not qemu.
> So maybe the solution here is to add calls in qemu to a memory
> coalescing function that in the raw qemu / kqemu case just don't
> do anything?
>
That's just word games. s/kvm/qemu/ won't change the fact that this is
a kvm specific hook.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-24 11:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-19 16:08 [PATCHEY 0/9] Rrrreplace the ol' scurvy memory registration Glauber Costa
2008-09-19 16:08 ` [PATCH 1/9] Don't separate registrations with IO_MEM_ROM set Glauber Costa
2008-09-19 16:08 ` [PATCH 2/9] do not use mem_hole anymore Glauber Costa
2008-09-19 16:08 ` [PATCH 3/9] allow intersecting region to be on the boundary Glauber Costa
2008-09-20 18:32 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-22 13:48 ` Glauber Costa
2008-09-23 10:30 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 16:18 ` Glauber Costa
2008-09-19 16:08 ` [PATCH 4/9] substitute is_allocated_mem with more general is_containing_region Glauber Costa
2008-09-20 18:33 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-22 13:51 ` Glauber Costa
2008-09-23 7:35 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 16:19 ` Glauber Costa
2008-09-19 16:08 ` [PATCH 5/9] add debuging facilities to memory registration at libkvm Glauber Costa
2008-09-20 18:34 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-22 13:52 ` Glauber Costa
2008-09-19 16:08 ` [PATCH 6/9] unregister memory area depending on their flags Glauber Costa
2008-09-19 16:08 ` [PATCH 7/9] register mmio slots Glauber Costa
2008-09-20 18:38 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-22 13:55 ` Glauber Costa
2008-09-23 7:31 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 16:48 ` Glauber Costa
2008-09-19 16:08 ` [PATCH 8/9] coalesce mmio regions with an explicit call Glauber Costa
2008-09-20 18:39 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-22 13:56 ` Glauber Costa
2008-09-23 7:29 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 16:22 ` Glauber Costa
2008-09-24 11:10 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-09-24 21:59 ` Glauber Costa
2008-09-25 7:08 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-25 11:19 ` Glauber Costa
2009-04-17 14:04 ` Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2008-09-19 16:08 ` [PATCH 9/9] move kvm memory registration inside qemu's Glauber Costa
2008-09-19 16:33 ` Jan Kiszka
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