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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] New shot at VGA optimization
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Glauber Costa |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] New shot at VGA optimization |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:34:37 -0200 |
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Avi Kivity <address@hidden> wrote:
> Glauber Costa wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The last version of the vga patch brought hope of a clean interface
>> for the vga optimization. However, it failed in some guests due to
>> the explicit need for alias, contrary to what we used to think.
>>
>> This needs arises from a KVM host bug
>> (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/17/496)
>>
>> However, even if it gets eventually fixed, any qemu running on an
>> old enough kernel will fail. Because of that, this series introduces
>> implicit aliasing support for kvm first, to just then implement the vga
>> optimization.
>>
>> The main idea is that qemu should never need to know about our dirty
>> trick.
>>
>> Hope I didn't miss anything.
>>
>>
>
> Looks good.
Thanks, so do you.
--
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: vga optimization., (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/6] Introduce kvm logging interface., Anthony Liguori, 2008/11/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/6] Introduce kvm logging interface., Glauber Costa, 2008/11/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/6] Introduce kvm logging interface., Anthony Liguori, 2008/11/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/6] kvm: de-register mem region for MMIO., Anthony Liguori, 2008/11/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/6] better type checking for vga, Anthony Liguori, 2008/11/19
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] kvm: memory aliasing support for kvm, Anthony Liguori, 2008/11/19
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] New shot at VGA optimization, Avi Kivity, 2008/11/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] New shot at VGA optimization,
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