From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Gleb Natapov <glebn@voltaire.com>
Cc: lkml@qumranet.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, kvm@qumranet.com,
shaohua.li@intel.com, general@lists.openfabrics.org,
addy@quadrics.com
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH][RFC]: pte notifiers -- support for external page tables
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:35:24 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46DFBBCC.8060307@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070906062441.GF3410@minantech.com>
Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 07:38:48PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> This sample patch adds a new mechanism, pte notifiers, that allows drivers
>> to register an interest in a changes to ptes. Whenever Linux changes a
>> pte, it will call a notifier to allow the driver to adjust the external
>> page table and flush its tlb.
>>
> How is this different from http://lwn.net/Articles/133627/? AFAIR the
> patch was rejected because there was only one user for it and it was
> decided that it would be better to maintain it out of tree for a while.
>
Your patch is more complete.
There are now at least three users: you, kvm, and newer Infiniband
HCAs. Care to resurrect the patch?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-06 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ 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
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 [this message]
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
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