> -----Original Message----- > From: kvm-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kvm-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Paul Mackerras > Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 9:52 AM > To: Alexander Graf; Benjamin Herrenschmidt > Cc: kvm-ppc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [PATCH RFC 0/5] Eliminate double-copying of FP/VMX/VSX state > > At present, PR KVM and BookE KVM does multiple copies of FP and > related state because of the way that they use the arrays in the > thread_struct as an intermediate staging post for the state. They do > this so that they can use the existing system functions for loading > and saving state, and so that they can keep guest state in the CPU > registers while executing general kernel code. > > This patch series reorganizes things so that KVM and the main kernel > use the same representation for FP/VMX/VSX state, and so that guest > state can be loaded/save directly from/to the vcpu struct instead of > having to go via the thread_struct. This simplifies things and should > be a little faster. > > This series is against Alex Graf's kvm-ppc-queue branch plus my recent > series of 23 patches to make PR and HV KVM coexist. Nice work Paul! What do you suggest for KVM BookE AltiVec v2 patchset, should I wait for this RFC or should I go ahead with the version based on the existing infrastructure? -Mike -- 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
