Re: [PATCHv2 00/11] KVM implementation of PAPR HPT resizing extension

[Paul Mackerras]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 03:56:36PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 09:18:13AM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 04:48:56PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> > > Here is the KVM implementation for the proposed PAPR extension which
> > > allows the runtime resizing of a PAPR guest's Hashed Page Table (HPT).
> > > 
> > > Using this requires a guest kernel with support for the extension.
> > > Patches for guest side support in Linux were posted earlier:
> > >   https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2016-December/152164.html
> > > 
> > > It also requires userspace (i.e. qemu) to intercept the HPT resizing
> > > hypercalls and invoke the KVM ioctl()s to implement them.  This is
> > > done instead of having KVM direclty intercept the hypercalls, so that
> > > userspace can, if useful, impose additional restrictions on resizes:
> > > for example it could refuse them entirely if policy for the VM
> > > precludes resizing, or it could limit the size of HPT the guest can
> > > request to meet resource limits.
> > > 
> > > Patches to implement the userspace part of HPT resizing are proposed
> > > for qemu-2.9, and can be found at:
> > >   https://github.com/dgibson/qemu/tree/hpt-resize
> > > 
> > > I'm posting these now, in the hopes that both these and the
> > > corresponding guest side patches can be staged and merged for the 4.11
> > > window.
> > 
> > Thanks, series applied to my kvm-ppc-next branch.
> 
> Great.  Where can I grab that tree?

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc

> > Next time, please cc kvm-ppc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx so I shows up in
> > patchwork and I don't miss it.
> 
> Sorry, I hadn't realized that list existed.  Noted for future
> reference.

Thanks,
Paul.