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Message-ID: <45743ECD.9050105@qumranet.com>
Date:	Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:29:17 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
To:	"Renato S. Yamane" <renatoyamane@...dic.com.br>
CC:	kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, akpm@...l.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: mmu: honor global bit on huge pages

Renato S. Yamane wrote:
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> Em 04-12-2006 12:57, Avi Kivity escreveu:
>   
>> The kvm mmu attempts to cache global translations, however it misses on
>> global huge page translation (which is what most global pages are).
>>
>> By caching global huge page translations, boot time of fc5 i386 on i386
>> is reduced from ~35 seconds to ~24 seconds.
>>     
>
> I try use this patch in Kernel 2.6.19-git5, but I receive an error message:
>
> /linux-2.6.19# patch -p1 < /home/yamane/Desktop/kernel/kvm.patch
> can't find file to patch at input line 3
> Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
> The text leading up to this was:
> - --------------------------
> |--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
> |+++ linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
> - --------------------------
> File to patch:
>
> Whats wrong? :-(
>   

This patch is for kvm, which lives in the -mm kernel.  Apply the latest 
-mm patch first.


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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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