From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org,
akpm@osdl.org, frankeh@watson.ibm.com, riel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] Guest page hinting version 7.
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 20:27:21 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0904022016180.29625@blonde.anvils> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090402175249.3c4a6d59@skybase>
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 22:32:00 +1100
> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> > I still think this needs much more justification.
>
> Ok, I can understand that. We probably need a KVM based version to show
> that benefits exist on non-s390 hardware as well.
That would indeed help your cause enormously (I think I made the same
point last time). All these complex transitions, added to benefit only
an architecture to which few developers have access, asks for trouble -
we mm hackers already get caught out often enough by your
too-well-camouflaged page_test_dirty().
Hugh
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-27 15:09 [patch 0/6] Guest page hinting version 7 Martin Schwidefsky
2009-03-27 15:09 ` [patch 1/6] Guest page hinting: core + volatile page cache Martin Schwidefsky
2009-03-27 22:57 ` Rik van Riel
2009-03-29 13:56 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-03-29 14:35 ` Rik van Riel
2009-03-27 15:09 ` [patch 2/6] Guest page hinting: volatile swap cache Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-01 2:10 ` Rik van Riel
2009-04-01 8:13 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-03-27 15:09 ` [patch 3/6] Guest page hinting: mlocked pages Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-01 2:52 ` Rik van Riel
2009-04-01 8:13 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-03-27 15:09 ` [patch 4/6] Guest page hinting: writable page table entries Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-01 13:25 ` Rik van Riel
2009-04-01 14:36 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-01 14:45 ` Rik van Riel
2009-03-27 15:09 ` [patch 5/6] Guest page hinting: minor fault optimization Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-01 15:33 ` Rik van Riel
2009-03-27 15:09 ` [patch 6/6] Guest page hinting: s390 support Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-01 16:18 ` Rik van Riel
2009-03-27 23:03 ` [patch 0/6] Guest page hinting version 7 Dave Hansen
2009-03-28 0:06 ` Rik van Riel
2009-03-29 14:20 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-03-29 14:38 ` Rik van Riel
2009-03-29 14:12 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-03-30 15:54 ` Dave Hansen
2009-03-30 16:34 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-03-30 18:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-30 18:42 ` Rik van Riel
2009-03-30 18:59 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-30 20:02 ` Rik van Riel
2009-03-30 20:35 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-30 21:38 ` Dor Laor
2009-03-30 22:16 ` Izik Eidus
2009-03-28 6:35 ` Rusty Russell
2009-03-29 14:23 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-02 11:32 ` Nick Piggin
2009-04-02 15:52 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-02 16:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-02 16:23 ` Nick Piggin
2009-04-02 19:06 ` Rik van Riel
2009-04-02 19:22 ` Nick Piggin
2009-04-02 20:05 ` Rik van Riel
2009-04-03 0:50 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-02 19:58 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-02 20:14 ` Rik van Riel
2009-04-02 20:34 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-03 8:49 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-03 18:19 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-06 7:21 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2009-04-06 7:32 ` Nick Piggin
2009-04-06 19:23 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-02 19:27 ` Hugh Dickins [this message]
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