[PATCH v2 00/30] KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Transaction memory support on PR KVM

Simon Guo wei.guo.simon at gmail.com
Tue May 15 21:44:24 AEST 2018


On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 04:01:54PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 01:37:07AM +0800, wei.guo.simon at gmail.com wrote:
> > From: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon at gmail.com>
> > 
> > In current days, many OS distributions have utilized transaction
> > memory functionality. In PowerPC, HV KVM supports TM. But PR KVM
> > does not.
> > 
> > The drive for the transaction memory support of PR KVM is the
> > openstack Continuous Integration testing - They runs a HV(hypervisor)
> > KVM(as level 1) and then run PR KVM(as level 2) on top of that.
> > 
> > This patch set add transaction memory support on PR KVM.
> 
> This patch set is starting to look pretty nice.  I only have a few
> comments on some of the patches.
> 
> Unfortunately, these patches collide with the patches that have gone
> upstream to add the hypervisor assistance for TM on POWER9, so some of
> the patches will need to be rebased (in particular patches 2 and 4).
Paul,
Thanks for your kind guide/patience during developing this patch set.

I will rebase and rework your comments.

BR,
- Simon


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