Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 1/5] Support more than 3.5GB with virtio (v3)

2008-05-09 Thread Anthony Liguori
Avi Kivity wrote: > Anthony Liguori wrote: >> We're pretty sloppy in virtio right now about phys_ram_base >> assumptions. This >> patch is an incremental step between what we have today and a full >> blown DMA >> API. I backported the DMA API but the performance impact was not >> acceptable >>

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 1/5] Support more than 3.5GB with virtio (v3)

2008-05-09 Thread Avi Kivity
Anthony Liguori wrote: > We're pretty sloppy in virtio right now about phys_ram_base assumptions. This > patch is an incremental step between what we have today and a full blown DMA > API. I backported the DMA API but the performance impact was not acceptable > to me. There's only a slight perfor

[kvm-devel] [PATCH 1/5] Support more than 3.5GB with virtio (v3)

2008-05-07 Thread Anthony Liguori
We're pretty sloppy in virtio right now about phys_ram_base assumptions. This patch is an incremental step between what we have today and a full blown DMA API. I backported the DMA API but the performance impact was not acceptable to me. There's only a slight performance impact with this particul