Re: [PATCH 0/8 v3] KVM support for 1GB pages

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On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:43:00AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 06/19/2009 04:16 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> this is the third version of the patches for KVM to support 1GB pages. Changes
>> to the last version include:
>>
>> 	- changed reporting of 1GB page support to userspace to use
>> 	  SUPPORTED_CPUID ioctl
>> 	- added support for 1GB pages to the software page walker code too
>>
>> This code still only can make use of 1GB pages with nested paging enabled. I
>> will give the shadow paging code another debug round soon. Please comment or
>> consider to apply these patches.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> 	Joerg
>>
>> Shortlog:
>>
>> Joerg Roedel (8):
>>        hugetlbfs: export vma_kernel_pagsize to modules
>>        kvm: change memslot data structures for multiple hugepage sizes
>>    
>
> At Marcelo's suggestion I've applied the first two patches, to reduce  your
> rebase load.

Thank you. I will soon fix your objection on the existing patches and resend
them. After that I continue to look at gbpages with shadow paging again.

	Joerg

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