From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753751AbZF2NST (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:18:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751969AbZF2NSE (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:18:04 -0400 Received: from outbound-dub.frontbridge.com ([213.199.154.16]:33080 "EHLO IE1EHSOBE001.bigfish.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750755AbZF2NSD convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:18:03 -0400 X-SpamScore: -40 X-BigFish: VPS-40(zz1432R98dR936eN4015L1805M9371Pzz1202hzzz32i6bh43j61h) X-Spam-TCS-SCL: 0:0 X-WSS-ID: 0KM04XP-01-L7L-01 Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:17:50 +0200 From: Joerg Roedel To: Avi Kivity CC: Marcelo Tosatti , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8 v3] KVM support for 1GB pages Message-ID: <20090629131749.GO5139@amd.com> References: <1245417389-5527-1-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com> <4A41E714.5070701@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A41E714.5070701@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Jun 2009 13:17:50.0400 (UTC) FILETIME=[0093DC00:01C9F8BC] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:43:00AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 06/19/2009 04:16 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote: >> Hi, >> >> this is the third version of the patches for KVM to support 1GB pages. Changes >> to the last version include: >> >> - changed reporting of 1GB page support to userspace to use >> SUPPORTED_CPUID ioctl >> - added support for 1GB pages to the software page walker code too >> >> This code still only can make use of 1GB pages with nested paging enabled. I >> will give the shadow paging code another debug round soon. Please comment or >> consider to apply these patches. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Joerg >> >> Shortlog: >> >> Joerg Roedel (8): >> hugetlbfs: export vma_kernel_pagsize to modules >> kvm: change memslot data structures for multiple hugepage sizes >> > > At Marcelo's suggestion I've applied the first two patches, to reduce your > rebase load. Thank you. I will soon fix your objection on the existing patches and resend them. After that I continue to look at gbpages with shadow paging again. Joerg -- | Advanced Micro Devices GmbH Operating | Karl-Hammerschmidt-Str. 34, 85609 Dornach bei München System | Research | Geschäftsführer: Thomas M. McCoy, Giuliano Meroni Center | Sitz: Dornach, Gemeinde Aschheim, Landkreis München | Registergericht München, HRB Nr. 43632