On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 07:44:49PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 08/03/2010 07:28 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >I have posted a small patch which makes this 650x faster without > >appreciable complication. > > It doesn't appear to support live migration, or hiding the feature > for -M older. AFAICT live migration should still work (even assuming someone live migrates a domain during early boot, which seems pretty unlikely ...) Maybe you mean live migration of the dma_* global variables? I can fix that. > It's not a good path to follow. Tomorrow we'll need to load 300MB > initrds and we'll have to rework this yet again. Not a very good straw man ... The patch would take ~300ms instead of ~115ms, versus something like 2 mins 40 seconds with the current method. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- 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