On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 13:48 -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote:

Christoph Lameter wrote:

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It still seems to be implemented for Xen and not to support a variety of 
page table methods in paravirt ops.

Yes, but that is just because the Xen hooks happens to be near the last 
part of the merge.  VMI required some special hooks, as do both Xen and 
lhype (I think ... Rusty can correct me if lhype's puppy's have 
precluded the addition of new hooks).

lguest was supposed to be a demonstration of paravirt_ops, so it
shouldn't have added any.  But note that I did change some other things,
such as the esp0 initialization for the swapper.

Puppies are still alive and well.  Although Andi not pushing into 2.6.21
(yet?) made puppies sad 8(

  Xen page table handling is very 
different, mostly it is trap and emulate so writable page tables can 
work, which means they don't always issue hypercalls for PTE updates, 
although they do have that option, should the hypervisor MMU model 
change, or performance concerns prompt a different model (or perhaps, 
migration?)

Yes, Xen really like their direct pagetable stuff.  I'm a
traditionalist, myself, but it did require some expansion of
paravirt_ops.

KVM might well want more, although from here it's more likely we'll move
some of the hooks up the stack a little IMHO.

Cheers,
Rusty.