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* [PATCH 0/6] xen: don't call vmalloc_sync_all() when mapping foreign pages
@ 2011-09-15 12:40 David Vrabel
  2011-09-15 12:40 ` [PATCH 1/6] xen: add functions for mapping foreign pages over pages David Vrabel
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From: David Vrabel @ 2011-09-15 12:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel; +Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, linux-kernel, Andrew Morton

This set of pages avoids the need to call vmalloc_sync_all() when
mapping foreign pages.  Two new functions are adding for mapping
foreign pages onto RAM pages instead of vmalloc space.

This does waste a page of RAM for each mapped page.  In the future a
ballooned page could be used instead (once the API for getting a
ballooned page with the right GFP flags is available).

David


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2011-09-15 12:40 [PATCH 0/6] xen: don't call vmalloc_sync_all() when mapping foreign pages David Vrabel
2011-09-15 12:40 ` [PATCH 1/6] xen: add functions for mapping foreign pages over pages David Vrabel
2011-09-15 12:40 ` [PATCH 2/6] block: xen-blkback: use API provided by xenbus module to map rings David Vrabel
2011-09-15 12:40 ` [PATCH 3/6] net: xen-netback: " David Vrabel
2011-09-15 12:40 ` [PATCH 4/6] xen: xen-pciback: use xenbus_map_ring_page() " David Vrabel
2011-09-15 12:40 ` [PATCH 5/6] xen: xenbus: remove xenbus_map_ring_valloc() and xenbus_map_ring_vfree() David Vrabel
2011-09-15 12:40 ` [PATCH 6/6] mm: remove vmalloc_sync_all() from alloc_vm_area() David Vrabel
2011-09-15 21:37 ` [PATCH 0/6] xen: don't call vmalloc_sync_all() when mapping foreign pages Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-21 10:42   ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-09-21 18:57     ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-22 11:06       ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-09-22 21:19         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-23 10:53           ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-09-23 11:18           ` David Vrabel
2011-09-21 14:44   ` David Vrabel
2011-09-23 15:11     ` David Vrabel

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