[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Memory locking is only required for KVM guests on ppc64

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Mon Jul 4 11:25:45 UTC 2016


On Mon, 2016-07-04 at 13:18 +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 10:57:59AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > Due to the way the hardware works, KVM on ppc64 always requires
> > memory locking; however, that is not the case for non-KVM ppc64
> > guests, eg. ppc64 guests that are running on x86_64 with TCG.
> > 
> > Only require memory locking for ppc64 guests if they are using
> > KVM or, as it's the case for all architectures, they have host
> > devices assigned using VFIO.
> > 
> 
> How about ppc64 TCG on ppc64?  Not needed as well?

That's right :)

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization




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