From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 22so1263577fkq.6 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:06:58 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Notifier for Externally Mapped Memory (EMM) Reply-To: dor.laor@qumranet.com In-Reply-To: <20080305094736.GA2013@sgi.com> References: <20080303213707.GA8091@v2.random> <20080303220502.GA5301@v2.random> <47CC9B57.5050402@qumranet.com> <20080304133020.GC5301@v2.random> <20080304222030.GB8951@v2.random> <1204670529.6241.52.camel@lappy> <47CE2B23.6010505@qumranet.com> <20080305094736.GA2013@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:02:57 +0200 Message-Id: <1204711377.31109.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Dor Laor Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Robin Holt Cc: Avi Kivity , Nick Piggin , Steve Wise , Andrea Arcangeli , Peter Zijlstra , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Kanoj Sarcar , Roland Dreier , Jack Steiner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com, general@lists.openfabrics.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Christoph Lameter List-ID: On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 03:47 -0600, Robin Holt wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 07:09:55AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > > Isn't that out of the question for .25? > > I keep hearing this mantra. What is so compelling about the .25 > release? When seems to be more important than what. While I understand > product release cycles, etc. and can certainly agree with them. I would > like to know with what I am being asked to agree. > The main reason is that several kvm exciting features are dependent on mmu notifiers: - It enables full guest swapping (as opposed to partial today) - It enables memory ballooning - It enables running Izik Eidus's Kernel Shared Pages module that unify guest pages together. The patchset is kernel-internal, stable and reviewed. Even if the interface will be changed in .26 it won't have noticeable effect. So since its stable, internal, reviewed, needed to enable important kvm features we like to see it in for .25. Regards, Dor > That said, I agree we should probably finish getting the comments on > Andrea's most recent patch, if any, cleared up and put that one in. > > Robin > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > kvm-devel mailing list > kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org