From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
mtosatti@redhat.com, xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] Weight-balanced tree
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:08:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D653F1D.2090106@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1298480563.18387.6.camel@x201>
On 02/23/2011 07:02 PM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> >
> > obj-$(CONFIG_WEIGHT_BALANCED_TREE) += wbtree.o
> >
> > then kvm can select it, and the impact on non-kvm kernels is removed.
>
> Then we'd have issues trying to build an external kvm module for a
> pre-existing non-kvm kernel. Do we care?
Officially, no.
What we typically do in these cases is copy the code into the kvm-kmod
compatibility layer and compile it if the kernel doesn't supply it (like
all older kernels regardless of config).
> If we were to take such a
> path, I think the default should be on, kvm would depend on it, but we
> could add an option to disable it for EMBEDDED/EXPERT. Thanks,
That would work as well.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-23 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-22 8:08 [PATCH 0/7] KVM: optimize memslots searching and cache GPN to GFN Xiao Guangrong
2011-02-22 8:09 ` [PATCH 1/7] KVM: cleanup memslot_id function Xiao Guangrong
2011-02-22 8:10 ` [PATCH 2/7] KVM: introduce KVM_MEM_SLOTS_NUM macro Xiao Guangrong
2011-02-22 8:11 ` [PATCH 1/3] KVM: introduce memslots_updated function Xiao Guangrong
2011-02-22 8:12 ` [PATCH 4/7] KVM: sort memslots and use binary search to search the right slot Xiao Guangrong
2011-02-22 14:25 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-22 14:54 ` Alex Williamson
2011-02-22 18:54 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] Weight-balanced binary tree + KVM growable memory slots using wbtree Alex Williamson
2011-02-22 18:55 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] Weight-balanced tree Alex Williamson
2011-02-23 13:09 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-23 17:02 ` Alex Williamson
2011-02-23 17:08 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-02-23 20:19 ` Alex Williamson
2011-02-24 23:04 ` Andrew Morton
2011-02-22 18:55 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] kvm: Allow memory slot array to grow on demand Alex Williamson
2011-02-24 10:39 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-24 18:08 ` Alex Williamson
2011-02-27 9:44 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-22 18:55 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] kvm: Use weight-balanced tree for memory slot management Alex Williamson
2011-02-22 18:59 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] Weight-balanced binary tree + KVM growable memory slots using wbtree Alex Williamson
2011-02-23 1:56 ` Alex Williamson
2011-02-23 13:12 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-23 18:06 ` Alex Williamson
2011-02-23 19:28 ` Alex Williamson
2011-02-24 10:06 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-24 17:35 ` Alex Williamson
2011-02-27 9:54 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-28 23:04 ` Alex Williamson
2011-03-01 15:03 ` Avi Kivity
2011-03-01 18:20 ` Alex Williamson
2011-03-02 13:31 ` Avi Kivity
2011-03-01 19:47 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-03-02 13:34 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-24 10:04 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-23 1:30 ` [PATCH 4/7] KVM: sort memslots and use binary search to search the right slot Xiao Guangrong
2011-02-22 8:13 ` [PATCH 5/7] KVM: cache the last used slot Xiao Guangrong
2011-02-22 14:26 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-22 8:15 ` [PATCH 6/7] KVM: cleanup traversal used slots Xiao Guangrong
2011-02-22 8:16 ` [PATCH 7/7] KVM: MMU: cache guest page number to guest frame number Xiao Guangrong
2011-02-22 14:32 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-23 1:38 ` Xiao Guangrong
2011-02-23 9:28 ` Avi Kivity
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