Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 3 Nov 2009 12:14:23 -0200 | | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 03/11] Handle asynchronous page fault in a PV guest. |
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 01:56:22PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote: > Asynchronous page fault notifies vcpu that page it is trying to access > is swapped out by a host. In response guest puts a task that caused the > fault to sleep until page is swapped in again. When missing page is > brought back into the memory guest is notified and task resumes execution.
Can't you apply this to non-paravirt guests, and continue to deliver interrupts while waiting for the swapin?
It should allow the guest to schedule a different task.
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