From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail138.messagelabs.com (mail138.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A3F26007E1 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 11:05:08 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4B43631A.2030101@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:04:42 +0200 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/12] KVM: Add host swap event notifications for PV guest References: <1262700774-1808-1-git-send-email-gleb@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Jun Koi Cc: Gleb Natapov , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, riel@redhat.com, cl@linux-foundation.org List-ID: On 01/05/2010 05:05 PM, Jun Koi wrote: > Is it true that to make this work, we will need a (PV) kernel driver > for each guest OS (Windows, Linux, ...)? > > It's partially usable even without guest modifications; while servicing a host page fault we can still deliver interrupts to the guest (which might cause a context switch and thus further progress to be made). -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- 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