From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx183.postini.com [74.125.245.183]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 14F586B0032 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 06:39:07 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] PF: Provide additional direct page notification Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1278) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 From: Alexander Graf In-Reply-To: <51DC33E7.1030404@de.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:39:01 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <282EB214-206B-4A04-9830-D97679C9F4EC@suse.de> References: <1373378207-10451-1-git-send-email-dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1373378207-10451-4-git-send-email-dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <51DC33E7.1030404@de.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Dominik Dingel , Gleb Natapov , Paolo Bonzini , Heiko Carstens , Martin Schwidefsky , Cornelia Huck , Xiantao Zhang , Christoffer Dall , Marc Zyngier , Ralf Baechle , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09.07.2013, at 18:01, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > On 09/07/13 15:56, Dominik Dingel wrote: >> By setting a Kconfig option, the architecture can control when >> guest notifications will be presented by the apf backend. >> So there is the default batch mechanism, working as before, where the = vcpu thread >> should pull in this information. On the other hand there is now the = direct >> mechanism, this will directly push the information to the guest. >>=20 >> Still the vcpu thread should call check_completion to cleanup = leftovers, >> that leaves most of the common code untouched. >>=20 >> Signed-off-by: Dominik Dingel >=20 > Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger =20 > for the "why". We want to use the existing architectured interface. Shouldn't this be a runtime option? Alex -- 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