linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] kvm,x86: RCU based table free

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Date:	Wed, 1 Aug 2012 13:59:53 +0100
From:	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>
To:	Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@...citrix.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@...citrix.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
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	"avi@...hat.com" <avi@...hat.com>,
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	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] kvm,x86: RCU based table free

On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
> 
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 12:23:37 +0100, Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 18:34 +0530, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
> > > > > PeterZ, is 7/7 alright to be picked?
> > > > 
> > > > Yeah, I guess it is.. I haven't had time to rework my tlb series yet
> > > > though. But these two patches together should make it work for x86.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Good. Do you think they are OK for 3.5-rc2? Or is it better to wait for
> > > 3.6?
> > > 
> > 
> > Hello Nikunj,
> > what happened to this patch series?
> > In particular I am interested in the following two patches:
> > 
> > kvm,x86: RCU based table free
> > Flush page-table pages before freeing them
> > 
> > do you still intend to carry on with the development? Is there anything
> > missing that is preventing them from going upstream?
> >
> I have posted a v3 on the kvm-list:
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg76955.html
> 
> I am carrying the above two patches(with one fix) in my series as well
> for completeness. 
> 
> I have picked up the patches from PeterZ's "Unify TLB gather
> implementations -v3"
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/81278

It is good to see that you are following up on this; since I didn't see
any updates I got worried :)
Cheers,

Stefano
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