[PATCH 0/4] powernv: kvm: numa fault improvement

Alexander Graf agraf at suse.de
Thu Jan 9 23:08:09 EST 2014


On 11.12.2013, at 09:47, Liu Ping Fan <kernelfans at gmail.com> wrote:

> This series is based on Aneesh's series  "[PATCH -V2 0/5] powerpc: mm: Numa faults support for ppc64"
> 
> For this series, I apply the same idea from the previous thread "[PATCH 0/3] optimize for powerpc _PAGE_NUMA"
> (for which, I still try to get a machine to show nums)
> 
> But for this series, I think that I have a good justification -- the fact of heavy cost when switching context between guest and host,
> which is  well known.

This cover letter isn't really telling me anything. Please put a proper description of what you're trying to achieve, why you're trying to achieve what you're trying and convince your readers that it's a good idea to do it the way you do it.

> If my suppose is correct, will CCing kvm at vger.kernel.org from next version.

This translates to me as "This is an RFC"?


Alex



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