From: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: lkml@qumranet.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, shaohua.li@intel.com,
kvm@qumranet.com, general@lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC]: pte notifiers -- support for external page tables
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 15:40:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070905204012.GA29272@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11890103283456-git-send-email-avi@qumranet.com>
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 07:38:48PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Some hardware and software systems maintain page tables outside the normal
> Linux page tables, which reference userspace memory. This includes
> Infiniband, other RDMA-capable devices, and kvm (with a pending patch).
>
I like it.
We have 2 special devices with external TLBs that can
take advantage of this.
One suggestion - at least for what we need. Can the notifier be
registered against the mm_struct instead of (or in addition to) the
vma?
---jack
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-05 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-05 16:38 Avi Kivity
2007-09-05 19:05 ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-05 19:14 ` Avi Kivity
2007-09-05 19:23 ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-05 19:32 ` Avi Kivity
2007-09-06 11:28 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-05 20:40 ` Jack Steiner [this message]
2007-09-05 20:40 ` Avi Kivity
2007-09-05 20:42 ` Avi Kivity
2007-09-06 6:24 ` [ofa-general] " Gleb Natapov
2007-09-06 8:35 ` Avi Kivity
2007-09-06 8:41 ` Gleb Natapov
2007-09-10 18:17 ` Andrew Hastings
2007-09-11 10:37 ` Daniel J Blueman
2007-09-11 11:19 ` Gleb Natapov
2007-09-05 19:32 [PATCH][RFC] " Avi Kivity
2007-09-06 4:28 ` Shaohua Li
2007-09-06 8:38 ` Avi Kivity
2007-09-06 13:28 ` Andi Kleen
[not found] ` <p73myw09g5w.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
2007-09-06 15:17 ` Avi Kivity
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