From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/8] kvm, mem-hotplug: Do not pin ept identity pagetable
 and apic access page.
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 09:21:15 +0800
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On 09/25/2014 09:43 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 25/09/2014 10:19, Tang Chen ha scritto:
>> Hi Paolo,
>>
>> I'd like to help to test the patches.
>> Would you please tell me what is the best way to test this patch-set ?
> How did _you_ test the patches?...

I just added "-cpu xxx,-x2apic" option, start the guest, using numactl 
to bind it
to a node (eg: node1). And offline the pages on node1. And repeat above 
thing
for a while. And it is OK.

I'm not sure if this is enough.

Thanks.

>
>> I think ept page is being used by regular guest.
>> Is adding "-cpu xxx,-x2apic option" able to make sure guest is using
>> apic page ?
> Yes.
>
> Paolo
> .
>