From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760116AbXGWMZ3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:25:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754607AbXGWMZU (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:25:20 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:35097 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754429AbXGWMZT (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:25:19 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:25:11 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Avi Kivity Cc: Shaohua Li , kvm-devel , lkml Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC 0/8]KVM: swap out guest pages Message-ID: <20070723122510.GA3674@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Avi Kivity , Shaohua Li , kvm-devel , lkml References: <1185173489.2645.64.camel@sli10-conroe.sh.intel.com> <46A4829C.9080104@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46A4829C.9080104@qumranet.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 01:27:40PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > Having an address_space (like your patch does) is remarkably simple, and > requires few hooks from the current vm. However using existing vmas > mapped by the user has many advantages: Actually it requires lots of deep down VM internals symbols that'll never get exported.