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

Martin Kletzander mkletzan at redhat.com
Mon Jul 4 11:32:45 UTC 2016


On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 01:25:45PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
>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 :)
>

OK, ACK then.
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