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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Eran Borovik <BOROVE@il.ibm.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Ben-Ami Yassour <BENAMI@il.ibm.com>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] KVM: Balloon support for device assignment
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:25:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B81344C.30809@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100221131732.GC7677@il.ibm.com>

On 02/21/2010 03:17 PM, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:53:25AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>    
>> I'm not worried about transition cost (that's for whoever makes the
>> transition to pay) but about how the APIs would translate to the new
>> way of doing things.
>>
>> For example, it might be done using mmu notifiers.  We might use the
>> existing madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) as the entry point (though I don't
>> know how we would indicate deflation).
>>      
> I guess we could extend mmu notifiers to notify on any PTE transition,
> but that seems like a lot of VM complexity for a little gain, given
> the simple KVM-internal alternatives.
>    

mmu notifiers already notify on any pte transition.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-21 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-17  9:43 [RFC] Balloon support for device assignment borove
2010-02-17  9:43 ` [RFC] KVM: " borove
2010-02-17  9:43   ` [RFC] QEMU: " borove
2010-02-17 10:28     ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-17 10:27   ` [RFC] KVM: " Avi Kivity
2010-02-17 17:52     ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2010-02-21  8:53       ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]         ` <20100221131732.GC7677@il.ibm.com>
2010-02-21 13:25           ` Avi Kivity [this message]

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