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Author SHA1 Message Date
Aneesh Kumar K.V 990978e993 powerpc/kvm: Use 256K chunk to track both RMA and hash page table allocation.
Both RMA and hash page table request will be a multiple of 256K. We can use
a chunk size of 256K to track the free/used 256K chunk in the bitmap. This
should help to reduce the bitmap size.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2013-07-08 16:21:13 +02:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V fa61a4e376 powerpc/kvm: Contiguous memory allocator based hash page table allocation
Powerpc architecture uses a hash based page table mechanism for mapping virtual
addresses to physical address. The architecture require this hash page table to
be physically contiguous. With KVM on Powerpc currently we use early reservation
mechanism for allocating guest hash page table. This implies that we need to
reserve a big memory region to ensure we can create large number of guest
simultaneously with KVM on Power. Another disadvantage is that the reserved memory
is not available to rest of the subsystems and and that implies we limit the total
available memory in the host.

This patch series switch the guest hash page table allocation to use
contiguous memory allocator.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2013-07-08 16:19:58 +02:00