From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kiszka Subject: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-kmod-2.6.38-rc7 Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:34:53 +0100 Message-ID: <4D70CE5D.70708@siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm Return-path: Received: from goliath.siemens.de ([192.35.17.28]:33335 "EHLO goliath.siemens.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759433Ab1CDLe4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2011 06:34:56 -0500 Received: from mail1.siemens.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by goliath.siemens.de (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id p24BYrsE027615 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 12:34:54 +0100 Received: from mchn199C.mchp.siemens.de ([139.25.109.49]) by mail1.siemens.de (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id p24BYrqc020093 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 12:34:53 +0100 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: We are approaching 2.6.38, so it's time to role out a preview on its kvm bits: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kvm/files/kvm-kmod/2.6.38-rc7/kvm-kmod-2.6.38-rc7.tar.bz2/download No big news in this release (async page faults require a 2.6.38 host kernel), but many small improvements. Major KVM changes since kvm-kmod-2.6.37: - AMD Bulldozer virtualization extensions: instruction decode assist, clean bits, xsave/avx, flush-by-asid - various small optimizations, e.g. of virtual MMU, x86 emulator, device assignment kvm-kmod changes: - Remove support for outdated kernels from compat anon_inode and srcu - Drop unused request-irq-compat