RE: Status of KVM on e500

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: kvm-ppc-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:kvm-ppc-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alexander Graf
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 5:33 PM
> To: Mu Lin
> Cc: kvm-ppc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Liu Yu-B13201
> Subject: Status of KVM on e500
> 
> Hi Mu,
> 
> > Hi, All,
> > 
> > Is there a status summary somewhere about Linux KVM on powerpc?
> 
> Unfortunately no. There are some outdated documents on linux-kvm.org:
> 
> http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/PowerPC
> 
> > I am interested in KVM on MPC8572 with e500 core, and how 
> about e500mc?
> 
> The e500 definitely works. I'm not sure about the e500mc. KVM 
> definitely has no code to leverage the new hypervisor 
> capabilities, but I don't see why the e500 code shouldn't 
> work on the e500mc.

Heh. I think the problem is people wouldn't like to run e500 kvm code on
e500mc.

> 
> > Is there bench mark testing results?
> 
> The closest thing I found is this page:
> 
> http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/PowerPC_Exittimings
> 
> The last time I tried out KVM on an e500, the MMU overhead 
> was a lot bigger though. So I guess there's more room for 
> improvement on that side.
> 

Indeed.
Since you have code and board.
Do you have any plan?  :-D

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