From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 15:40:13 -0500 From: Jack Steiner Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC]: pte notifiers -- support for external page tables Message-ID: <20070905204012.GA29272@sgi.com> References: <11890103283456-git-send-email-avi@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <11890103283456-git-send-email-avi@qumranet.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Avi Kivity Cc: lkml@qumranet.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, shaohua.li@intel.com, kvm@qumranet.com, general@lists.openfabrics.org List-ID: 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org