-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andi Kleen Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 1:56 PM To: Avi Kivity Cc: Andi Kleen; Andre Przywara; [email protected] Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] KVM-userspace: add NUMA support for guests
> > The page is allocated at an uninteresting point in time. For example, > > the boot loaded allocates a bunch of pages. > > The far majority of pages are allocated when a process wants them > or the kernel uses them for file cache. Is that not going to be fairly guest-specific? For example, Windows has a thread that does background zeroing of unallocated pages that aren't marked as zeroed already. I'd imagine that touching such pages would translate to an "allocation" as far as any hypervisor would be concerned. - S -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
