On 11/01/2011 10:58 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: > > > We already have another mechanism for such shared memory, > > > mmap(vcpu_fd). x86 uses it for the coalesced mmio region as well as the > > > traditional kvm_run area. Please consider using it. > > > > What does it buy us, other than needing a separate codepath in QEMU to > > allocate the memory differently based on whether KVM (and this feature) > > The ability to use get_free_pages() and ordinary kernel memory directly, > instead of indirection through a struct page ** array. Ugh, you use vmap(), so this doesn't hold. get_free_pages() is faster than vmap(), but not by much. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain. -- 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
