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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 00/12] KVM: Add host swap event notifications for PV guest
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 07:17:30PM +0900, Jun Koi wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 01/05/2010 05:05 PM, Jun Koi wrote:
> >>
> >> Is it true that to make this work, we will need a (PV) kernel driver
> >> for each guest OS (Windows, Linux, ...)?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > It's partially usable even without guest modifications; while servicing a
> > host page fault we can still deliver interrupts to the guest (which might
> > cause a context switch and thus further progress to be made).
>
> Lets say, in the case the guest has no PV driver. When we find that a
> guest page is swapped out, we can send a pagefault
> to the guest to trick it to load that page in. And we dont need the
> driver at all.
>
That's not the guest who should load the page. From guest's point of view the
page is in memory.

> Is that a reasonable solution?
>
> Thanks,
> J

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Gleb.


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