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authorAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2010-01-26 09:30:06 -0500
committerMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>2010-03-01 10:36:12 -0500
commitdb358796d95886f9715d1c91e9ae866c005511d7 (patch)
tree0cf30caa5d44b1fbfe505dfbf1c8fb246a23fb53
parentd380a5e4022a5c63a6c5ac631e48c752ba7f1e4f (diff)
KVM: Plan obsolescence of kernel allocated slots, paravirt mmu
These features are unused by modern userspace and can go away. Paravirt mmu needs to stay a little longer for live migration. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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@@ -538,3 +538,33 @@ Why: Duplicate functionality with the gspca_zc3xx driver, zc0301 only
538 sensors) wich are also supported by the gspca_zc3xx driver 538 sensors) wich are also supported by the gspca_zc3xx driver
539 (which supports 53 USB-ID's in total) 539 (which supports 53 USB-ID's in total)
540Who: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> 540Who: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
541
542----------------------------
543
544What: KVM memory aliases support
545When: July 2010
546Why: Memory aliasing support is used for speeding up guest vga access
547 through the vga windows.
548
549 Modern userspace no longer uses this feature, so it's just bitrotted
550 code and can be removed with no impact.
551Who: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
552
553----------------------------
554
555What: KVM kernel-allocated memory slots
556When: July 2010
557Why: Since 2.6.25, kvm supports user-allocated memory slots, which are
558 much more flexible than kernel-allocated slots. All current userspace
559 supports the newer interface and this code can be removed with no
560 impact.
561Who: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
562
563----------------------------
564
565What: KVM paravirt mmu host support
566When: January 2011
567Why: The paravirt mmu host support is slower than non-paravirt mmu, both
568 on newer and older hardware. It is already not exposed to the guest,
569 and kept only for live migration purposes.
570Who: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>