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kvm-kmod-2.6.38-rc7

ANNOUNCE Jan Kiszka 1 participant 1 message Mar 4, 2011 KVM

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We are approaching 2.6.38, so it's time to role out a preview on its kvm bits:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/kvm/files/kvm-kmod/2.6.38-rc7/kvm-kmod-2.6.38-rc7.tar.bz2/download

No big news in this release (async page faults require a 2.6.38 host kernel), but many small improvements.

Major KVM changes since kvm-kmod-2.6.37:
- AMD Bulldozer virtualization extensions: instruction decode assist, clean bits, xsave/avx, flush-by-asid
- various small optimizations, e.g. of virtual MMU, x86 emulator, device assignment

kvm-kmod changes:
- Remove support for outdated kernels from compat anon_inode and srcu
- Drop unused request-irq-compat