> -----Original Message----- > From: kvm-ppc-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:kvm-ppc-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hollis Blanchard > Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 3:44 AM > To: kvm-ppc > Subject: kernel status update > > I've posted most of the patches here before, but I've built up a small > backlog of patches to be pushed upstream. I've been running with them > long enough to be happy with them, and I've just posted them all to > http://penguinppc.org/~hollisb/kvm/patches/ > > There are two really minor patches I want to have acked by the PPC > maintainers before I push the whole series to Avi, however. I've > submitted those for review already, so hopefully that will be done by > early next week. > > This patch series has two main components, refactoring and > optimization: > * It dramatically restructures some of the code flow and data > structures to make supporting other processors possible. There > are still a few rough corners though, like the TLB > miss handling > in booke.c kvmppc_handle_exit(). At this point I'd be OK with > duplicating those handlers into core-specific files. > * Based on Christian's analysis and patches, there is some > performance optimization for Book E and 440 code. > * Yu's idea about TLB handling was great, and I saw about a 20% > performance improvement on a couple small workloads > on 440. Very > happy about that one. :) > > Anyways, just an update to let folks know where things sit on > the kernel > side. > Good to know that! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm-ppc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
