Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764755AbYCEJ4s (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 04:56:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758550AbYCEJ4f (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 04:56:35 -0500 Received: from bzq-179-150-194.static.bezeqint.net ([212.179.150.194]:34162 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757992AbYCEJ4e (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 04:56:34 -0500 Message-ID: <47CE6D8D.9060306@qumranet.com> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:53:17 +0200 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robin Holt CC: Peter Zijlstra , Christoph Lameter , Andrea Arcangeli , Jack Steiner , Nick Piggin , akpm@linux-foundation.org, kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, general@lists.openfabrics.org, Steve Wise , Roland Dreier , Kanoj Sarcar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com Subject: Re: [RFC] Notifier for Externally Mapped Memory (EMM) References: <20080303213707.GA8091@v2.random> <20080303220502.GA5301@v2.random> <47CC9B57.5050402@qumranet.com> <20080304133020.GC5301@v2.random> <20080304222030.GB8951@v2.random> <1204670529.6241.52.camel@lappy> <47CE2B23.6010505@qumranet.com> <20080305094736.GA2013@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20080305094736.GA2013@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0rc1 (firebolt.argo.co.il [0.0.0.0]); Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:53:17 +0200 (IST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1037 Lines: 30 Robin Holt wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 07:09:55AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> Isn't that out of the question for .25? >> > > I keep hearing this mantra. What is so compelling about the .25 > release? When seems to be more important than what. While I understand > product release cycles, etc. and can certainly agree with them. I would > like to know with what I am being asked to agree. > > kvm gained the ability to swap in 2.6.25. Without mmu notifiers, though, the guest can still easily pin all of its memory. > That said, I agree we should probably finish getting the comments on > Andrea's most recent patch, if any, cleared up and put that one in. > Great. Thanks. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/