Mario, On 15/04/14 02:24, Mario Smarduch wrote: > > The patch set supports migration dirty bitmap support implementation for > arm-kvm. Spliting of pmd's to pte's as suggested is implemented on demand > when migration is started. > > I tested it on 4-way SMP ARMv7, with SMP guests. > 2GB VMs with dirty shared memory segments upto 1.8 GB > and relatively fast update rates 16Mb/5mS. > > Next course of action would be rmap support which > scales much better on bigger systems. Although one > think that confused me, x86 migrations were sometimes > 10 to 15 times slower, I think it must be something > wrong with my configuration. > > > Mario Smarduch (3): > headers for migration dirtybitmap support > initial write protect of VM address space and on dirty log read > hooks to interface with QEMU for initial write protect, dirty log read > > arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 9 +++ > arch/arm/kvm/arm.c | 62 ++++++++++++++- > arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 158 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > 3 files changed, 226 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > Overall, I think this patch series requires some work, the most glaring issue being the total lack of documentation (even by my own standards). Also, it is fairly obvious that ARMv8 should be done at the same time (as all that code is shared, and will avoid API abuse...), and that a fair amount of the code is actually generic across architecture, and should be shared. I'm very much looking forward to the next iteration of this series. Thanks, M. -- Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html