From: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, <gleb@kernel.org>,
<mtosatti@redhat.com>, <nadav.amit@gmail.com>,
<jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>,
<isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>, <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/8] kvm, mem-hotplug: Do not pin ept identity pagetable and apic access page.
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 09:21:15 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5424BF8B.1010701@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54241BFA.5000503@redhat.com>
On 09/25/2014 09:43 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 25/09/2014 10:19, Tang Chen ha scritto:
>> Hi Paolo,
>>
>> I'd like to help to test the patches.
>> Would you please tell me what is the best way to test this patch-set ?
> How did _you_ test the patches?...
I just added "-cpu xxx,-x2apic" option, start the guest, using numactl
to bind it
to a node (eg: node1). And offline the pages on node1. And repeat above
thing
for a while. And it is OK.
I'm not sure if this is enough.
Thanks.
>
>> I think ept page is being used by regular guest.
>> Is adding "-cpu xxx,-x2apic option" able to make sure guest is using
>> apic page ?
> Yes.
>
> Paolo
> .
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-26 1:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-24 7:57 [PATCH v8 0/8] kvm, mem-hotplug: Do not pin ept identity pagetable and apic access page Tang Chen
2014-09-24 7:57 ` [PATCH v8 1/8] kvm: Use APIC_DEFAULT_PHYS_BASE macro as the apic access page address Tang Chen
2014-09-24 7:57 ` [PATCH v8 2/8] kvm: Remove ept_identity_pagetable from struct kvm_arch Tang Chen
2014-09-24 7:57 ` [PATCH v8 3/8] kvm: Make init_rmode_identity_map() return 0 on success Tang Chen
2014-09-24 7:57 ` [PATCH v8 4/8] kvm, mem-hotplug: Reload L1's apic access page in vcpu_enter_guest() Tang Chen
2014-09-24 11:44 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-24 7:57 ` [PATCH v8 5/8] kvm: Rename make_all_cpus_request() to kvm_make_all_cpus_request() and make it non-static Tang Chen
2014-09-24 7:57 ` [PATCH v8 6/8] kvm, mem-hotplug: Reload L1's apic access page on migration when L2 is running Tang Chen
2014-09-24 7:57 ` [PATCH v8 7/8] kvm, mem-hotplug: Add arch specific mmu notifier to handle apic access migration Tang Chen
2014-09-24 7:57 ` [PATCH v8 8/8] kvm, mem-hotplug: Unpin and remove kvm_arch->apic_access_page Tang Chen
2014-09-24 8:20 ` [PATCH v8 0/8] kvm, mem-hotplug: Do not pin ept identity pagetable and apic access page Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-24 8:25 ` Tang Chen
2014-09-25 8:19 ` Tang Chen
2014-09-25 13:43 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-26 1:21 ` Tang Chen [this message]
2014-09-26 8:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
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