Christoph Lameter wrote: > >> Excellent, the more users the patch has, the easier it will be to justify it. >> > > We'd like to make sure though that we can sleep when the hooks have been > called. We may have to sent a message to kick remote ptes out when local > pte changes happen. > >
It may be as simple as moving the notifier calls down to a sleeping context, away from the pte lock and any friends. kvm also needs to send a message on an mmu notification, but that's just an IPI within the same host. -- Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel