Re: [PATCH 04 of 12] Moves all mmu notifier methods outside the PTlock (first and not last

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Wed Apr 23 2008 - 14:02:30 EST


On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> I know you rather want to see KVM development stalled for more months
> than to get a partial solution now that already covers KVM and GRU
> with the same API that XPMEM will also use later. It's very unfair on
> your side to pretend to stall other people development if what you
> need has stronger requirements and can't be merged immediately. This
> is especially true given it was publically stated that XPMEM never
> passed all regression tests anyway, so you can't possibly be in such
> an hurry like we are, we can't progress without this. Infact we can
> but it would be an huge effort and it would run _slower_ and it would
> all need to be deleted once mmu notifiers are in.

We have had this workaround effort done years ago and have been
suffering the ill effects of pinning for years. Had to deal with
it again and again so I guess we do not matter? Certainly we have no
interest in stalling KVM development.
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