From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] kvm mmu: infrastructure changes for multiple huge page support
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:38:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49CF5DBF.3030305@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1238164319-16092-3-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Joerg Roedel wrote:
> This patch includes most of the necessary changes to the KVM SoftMMU for
> supporting more than one huge page size. The changes in this patch
> include:
>
> * introduce 'enum kvm_page_size' which is used to represent the page
> size used
>
How about the concept of page_level instead, which returns the level of
a page in terms of the paging hierarchy? Would be easier to compare
against in the various walkers.
I've been thinking for a while to make levels zero-based, so 0 would be
a 4K page, 1 a 2M page, and 2 a 1GB page.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-29 11:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-27 14:31 [PATCH 0/7] Support for GB pages in KVM Joerg Roedel
2009-03-27 14:31 ` [PATCH 1/7] hugetlb: export vma_kernel_pagesize to modules Joerg Roedel
2009-03-27 14:31 ` [PATCH 2/7] kvm mmu: infrastructure changes for multiple huge page support Joerg Roedel
2009-03-29 11:38 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-03-27 14:31 ` [PATCH 3/7] kvm mmu: add page size parameter to rmap_remove Joerg Roedel
2009-03-27 14:31 ` [PATCH 4/7] kvm mmu: implement necessary data structures for second huge page accounting Joerg Roedel
2009-03-29 11:45 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-29 13:03 ` Joerg Roedel
2009-03-29 13:15 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-29 13:32 ` Joerg Roedel
2009-03-29 13:26 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-29 13:37 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-27 14:31 ` [PATCH 5/7] kvm mmu: add support for 1GB pages to direct mapping paths Joerg Roedel
2009-03-29 11:49 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-27 14:31 ` [PATCH 6/7] kvm mmu: enabling 1GB pages by extending backing_size funtion Joerg Roedel
2009-03-29 11:51 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-27 14:31 ` [PATCH 7/7] kvm x86: report 1GB page support to userspace Joerg Roedel
2009-03-29 11:54 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-29 12:45 ` Joerg Roedel
2009-03-29 12:49 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-29 12:54 ` Joerg Roedel
2009-03-29 13:00 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-28 21:40 ` [PATCH 0/7] Support for GB pages in KVM Marcelo Tosatti
2009-03-28 21:49 ` Joerg Roedel
2009-03-29 12:03 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-29 12:47 ` Joerg Roedel
2009-03-29 12:01 ` Avi Kivity
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