[resend due to broken cc list in my original post] Jack Steiner wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 07:38:48PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> Some hardware and software systems maintain page tables outside the normal >> Linux page tables, which reference userspace memory. This includes >> Infiniband, other RDMA-capable devices, and kvm (with a pending patch). >> >> > > I like it. > > We have 2 special devices with external TLBs that can > take advantage of this. > > One suggestion - at least for what we need. Can the notifier be > registered against the mm_struct instead of (or in addition to) the > vma? >
Yes. It's a lot simpler since this way we don't have to support vma creation/splitting/merging/destruction. There's a tiny performance hit for kvm, but it isn't worth the bother. Will implement for v2 of this patch. -- Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
