On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 17:00 +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > The PowerPC 440 Linux kernel uses 256MB pages for the linear mapping.
> > When we run that as a guest, those pages would of course need to be
> > physically contiguous in the host.
>
> > Another possibility is to fake out guest larg
On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 09:40 -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> The PowerPC 440 Linux kernel uses 256MB pages for the linear mapping.
> When we run that as a guest, those pages would of course need to be
> physically contiguous in the host.
>
> I think long-term the KVM plan is to move memory allocat
> The PowerPC 440 Linux kernel uses 256MB pages for the linear mapping.
> When we run that as a guest, those pages would of course need to be
> physically contiguous in the host.
> Another possibility is to fake out guest large pages by actually using
> small pages on the host, and handle the extr
Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> The PowerPC 440 Linux kernel uses 256MB pages for the linear mapping.
> When we run that as a guest, those pages would of course need to be
> physically contiguous in the host.
>
> I think long-term the KVM plan is to move memory allocation out of the
> kernel (where it cu
The PowerPC 440 Linux kernel uses 256MB pages for the linear mapping.
When we run that as a guest, those pages would of course need to be
physically contiguous in the host.
I think long-term the KVM plan is to move memory allocation out of the
kernel (where it currently uses vmalloc) into userspac