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* [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] New shot at VGA optimization
@ 2008-11-19 15:26 Glauber Costa
  2008-11-19 14:23 ` Avi Kivity
  2008-11-19 15:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] kvm: memory aliasing support for kvm Glauber Costa
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 18+ messages in thread
From: Glauber Costa @ 2008-11-19 15:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel

Hi,

The last version of the vga patch brought hope of a clean interface
for the vga optimization. However, it failed in some guests due to
the explicit need for alias, contrary to what we used to think.

This needs arises from a KVM host bug (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/17/496)

However, even if it gets eventually fixed, any qemu running on an
old enough kernel will fail. Because of that, this series introduces
implicit aliasing support for kvm first, to just then implement the vga
optimization.

The main idea is that qemu should never need to know about our 
dirty trick.

Hope I didn't miss anything.

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2008-11-19 15:26 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] New shot at VGA optimization Glauber Costa
2008-11-19 14:23 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-19 14:34   ` Glauber Costa
2008-11-19 15:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] kvm: memory aliasing support for kvm Glauber Costa
2008-11-19 15:07   ` Anthony Liguori
2008-11-19 15:26   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/6] better type checking for vga Glauber Costa
2008-11-19 15:08     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-11-19 15:26     ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/6] move vga_io_address to VGA State Glauber Costa
2008-11-19 15:26       ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/6] kvm: de-register mem region for MMIO Glauber Costa
2008-11-19 15:10         ` Anthony Liguori
2008-11-19 15:26         ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/6] Introduce kvm logging interface Glauber Costa
2008-11-19 15:18           ` Anthony Liguori
2008-11-19 17:23             ` Glauber Costa
2008-11-19 17:51               ` Anthony Liguori
2008-11-19 15:26           ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: vga optimization Glauber Costa
2008-11-19 15:23             ` Anthony Liguori
2008-11-19 17:19               ` Glauber Costa
2008-11-19 17:26                 ` Anthony Liguori

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