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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, avi@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] always assign userspace_addr
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:59:47 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49247E43.1070108@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081119205332.GA27378@poweredge.glommer>

Glauber Costa wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:51:00PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>> But the problem still exists even with this code.  I checked.
>>
>> So if you have something working without modifying the kernel, can you  
>> post it?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Anthony Liguori
>>     
>
> Ok, how do you feel about this one?
>
> My proposal is to always delete a memslot before reusing the space,
> but controlling this behaviour by a flag, so we can maintain backwards
> compatibility with people using older versions of the interface.
>   

Is the old behavior ever correct?  I think it's always wrong.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori



  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-19 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-18  3:04 [PATCH] always assign userspace_addr Glauber Costa
2008-11-19 15:55 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-11-19 18:43   ` Glauber Costa
2008-11-19 18:51     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-11-19 20:53       ` Glauber Costa
2008-11-19 20:59         ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-11-20 11:01       ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-20 11:02       ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-21 18:11         ` Glauber Costa
2008-11-24 13:08           ` Glauber Costa
2008-11-25 14:04           ` Avi Kivity

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