Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] Eliminate double-copying of FP/VMX/VSX state

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On 09.09.2013, at 11:38, Michael Neuling wrote:

> Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 09.09.2013, at 09:28, Michael Neuling wrote:
>> 
>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> This is great!
>>> 
>>> Alex, can you pull this into your tree?  
>> 
>> I never apply RFC patches if I can avoid it. Paul, if you think
>> they're ready for inclusion, please repost them as actual patches.
> 
> Arrh, good point.  I'll talk to paulus about reposting them.  
> 
> Your kvm-ppc-queue branch on github seems to be based on 3.11-rc1. Is
> that the tree we should be aiming for currently?

If kvm/next is newer, please base them on that for the meantime. I'll bump it up a few days after kvm/next.


Alex

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