From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexander Graf Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Split up pv-ops Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:04:48 +0100 Message-ID: <4B17D390.5050602@suse.de> References: <1258503192-14246-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> <4B17D0C7.1020805@suse.de> <4B17D290.9040507@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm list , Nick Piggin , Glauber Costa , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:56430 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756181AbZLCPEn (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:04:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4B17D290.9040507@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Avi Kivity wrote: > On 12/03/2009 04:52 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: >> Alexander Graf wrote: >> >>> Paravirt ops is currently only capable of either replacing a lot of >>> Linux >>> internal code or none at all. The are users that don't need all of the >>> possibilities pv-ops delivers though. >>> >>> On KVM for example we're perfectly fine not using the PV MMU, thus not >>> touching any MMU code. That way we don't have to improve pv-ops to >>> become >>> fast, we just don't compile the MMU parts in! >>> >>> This patchset splits pv-ops into several smaller config options >>> split by >>> feature category and then converts the KVM pv-ops code to use only the >>> bits that are required, lowering overhead. >>> >>> >> So has this ended up in some tree yet? >> > > Don't think so. I suggest you copy lkml and Ingo. Sending off the complete set again? Rebased against what?