[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Increase number of memslots to 512

Linu Cherian linucherian at gmail.com
Tue Feb 7 01:00:00 PST 2017


On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com> wrote:
> On 24/01/17 05:06, Linu Cherian wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 9:53 PM, Geetha Akula
>> <geethasowjanya.akula at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Marc,
>>>
>>> We have been testing vfio patches regularly. We are in contact with Eric
>>> offline. In fact we are the first one to test V5 patches on Eric request as
>>> he had some issue with his test setup.  After our feedback it was posted in
>>> upstream.
>>> We also reported issues found with vfio patches. We been contact with Eric
>>> regularly.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Geetha.
>>>
>>> On 14-Jan-2017 4:17 PM, "Marc Zyngier" <marc.zyngier at arm.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jan 14 2017 at 09:53:52 AM, Linu Cherian <linucherian at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Let me be more precise. At the moment, KVM on arm64 doesn't support the
>>>>>> delivery of MSIs generated by physical devices into a guest (patches
>>>>>> are
>>>>>> in progress, but not merged yet). So unless you used devices that have
>>>>>> no need for interrupts, I don't see how this works.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can you shed some light on your test process?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> We did the testing on top of latest VFIO msi support patches submitted
>>>>> by Eric Auger.
>>>>
>>>> Did you? That's reassuring. It would have been good if any of the Cavium
>>>> folks did chime in on the list and help reviewing though - so far, all
>>>> I've heard is a deafening silence. I guess there was no hurry for Cavium
>>>> to see these patches being merged.
>>>>
>>
>> May i know if this patch is queued for merge.
>
> Not at the moment, since none of the patches it implicitly depends on
> are merged yet either. Once Eric's patches are in (or at least in
> -next), this can be queued - assuming it gets some reviewing too.
>

Marc,
Hope this patch will be queued for merge, since Eric's patches has been pulled.

Thanks.



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