On 02.02.2010, at 09:18, Jan Kiszka wrote: > Let's start with the overall stats: > > 31 files changed, 274 insertions(+), 822 deletions(-) > > So this series drops far more than 500 lines of redundant code, moving > qemu-kvm yet a bit closer to upstream. > > The other highlight is the simplification of synchronization between > in-kernel and user space VCPU states. This area used to call a lot of > problems in the past because it was tricky to get things right, > specifically during the multi-threaded startup. The new approach pushes > all the sync work around reset and vmsave/load into generic code, not > only removing the burden from developers of, say, in-kernel APIC > support, but also dropping most of our kvm-specific hooks, especially in > the qemu-kvm tree. > > While I tested this on various VMs around, and things look good so far, > I wouldn't be surprised if there are some regressions remaining, > specifically in the non-x86 parts that I wasn't able to test or even > build. Please have a careful look! The good news on that part is that apart from IA64, all other archs are broken in qemu-kvm anyways, but work on upstream qemu. So moving towards upstream definitely helps here. Alex-- 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
