On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 11:15:16AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Powerpc architecture uses a hash based page table mechanism for mapping virtual > addresses to physical address. The architecture require this hash page table to > be physically contiguous. With KVM on Powerpc currently we use early reservation > mechanism for allocating guest hash page table. This implies that we need to > reserve a big memory region to ensure we can create large number of guest > simultaneously with KVM on Power. Another disadvantage is that the reserved memory > is not available to rest of the subsystems and and that implies we limit the total > available memory in the host. > > This patch series switch the guest hash page table allocation to use > contiguous memory allocator. > > Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> -- 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
