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Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:48:17 -0400 From: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com> To: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com> CC: Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com, cl@...ux-foundation.org, mtosatti@...hat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 08/12] Handle async PF in a guest. On 10/07/2010 01:18 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 10/07/2010 07:14 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote: >> Host side keeps track of outstanding apfs and will not send apf for the >> same phys address twice. It will halt vcpu instead. > > What about different pages, running the scheduler code? > > Oh, and we'll run the scheduler recursively. When preempt is disabled in the guest, it will not invoke the "reschedule for apf" code, but it will simply turn into a normal page fault. Last I looked, the scheduler code disabled preempt (for obvious reasons). -- All rights reversed -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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