From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org,
nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, frankeh@watson.ibm.com,
hugh@veritas.com
Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] Guest page hinting version 6.
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:47:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1205401627.26537.40.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803130941.48480.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 09:41 +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Thursday 13 March 2008 00:21:32 Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > My question now is how to proceed with the code. I sure
> > would love to see the code going upstream some day but that depends on
> > the mm developers as the code adds complexity that needs to be supported.
>
> Well, I want this feature, but I agree about complexity.
>
> AFAICT, the trivial subset of this is the hinting of Unused pages. It seems
> that would buy us something, and perhaps be a stepping stone to full page
> hinting?
I've been there but the unused page thing is so small that it doesn't
make sense to separate it from the patches. If I don't see any progress
then I will come up with a patch that adds the Unused state transitions
to the arch files of s390.
--
blue skies,
Martin.
"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-13 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-12 13:21 [patch 0/6] Guest page hinting version 6 Martin Schwidefsky
2008-03-12 13:21 ` [patch 1/6] Guest page hinting: core + volatile page cache Martin Schwidefsky
2008-03-12 23:12 ` Rusty Russell
2008-03-13 9:24 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-03-12 13:21 ` [patch 2/6] Guest page hinting: volatile swap cache Martin Schwidefsky
2008-03-12 13:21 ` [patch 3/6] Guest page hinting: mlocked pages Martin Schwidefsky
2008-03-12 23:27 ` Rusty Russell
2008-03-13 9:13 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-03-12 13:21 ` [patch 4/6] Guest page hinting: writable page table entries Martin Schwidefsky
2008-03-12 23:35 ` Rusty Russell
2008-03-13 9:11 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-03-12 13:21 ` [patch 5/6] Guest page hinting: minor fault optimization Martin Schwidefsky
2008-03-12 13:21 ` [patch 6/6] Guest page hinting: s390 support Martin Schwidefsky
2008-03-12 16:19 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-12 16:28 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-03-12 16:44 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-12 16:59 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-03-12 17:48 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-12 20:04 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-03-12 20:45 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-12 20:56 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-03-12 21:36 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-13 9:45 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-03-13 16:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-13 16:17 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-13 16:55 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-03-13 17:05 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-13 17:23 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-03-13 9:42 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-03-13 9:36 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-03-13 9:32 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-03-12 22:41 ` [patch 0/6] Guest page hinting version 6 Rusty Russell
2008-03-13 9:47 ` Martin Schwidefsky [this message]
2008-03-13 16:57 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-03-13 17:14 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-03-13 17:45 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-03-13 19:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-03-13 21:41 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-03-13 18:41 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-13 18:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-03-13 19:53 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-03-14 18:30 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-14 21:32 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-03-14 21:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-17 9:21 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-05-06 15:33 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-05-06 19:46 ` Rik van Riel
2008-05-07 3:49 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-05-07 7:00 ` Martin Schwidefsky
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