From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758115AbXGWM3f (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:29:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752884AbXGWM31 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:29:27 -0400 Received: from il.qumranet.com ([82.166.9.18]:34255 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752774AbXGWM31 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:29:27 -0400 Message-ID: <46A49F30.5010206@qumranet.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:29:36 +0300 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig , Avi Kivity , Shaohua Li , kvm-devel , lkml Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC 0/8]KVM: swap out guest pages References: <1185173489.2645.64.camel@sli10-conroe.sh.intel.com> <46A4829C.9080104@qumranet.com> <20070723122510.GA3674@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20070723122510.GA3674@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 01:27:40PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> Having an address_space (like your patch does) is remarkably simple, and >> requires few hooks from the current vm. However using existing vmas >> mapped by the user has many advantages: >> > > Actually it requires lots of deep down VM internals symbols that'll never > get exported. > > What's "it" here? kvm-specific address space or generic vmas. Generic vmas will be more intrusive AFAICT. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function