Re: [PATCH 01/14] KVM: monolithic: x86: remove kvm.ko

2019-10-15 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 15/10/19 05:18, Sean Christopherson wrote: >> The KVM config option should be changed to a bool and its help text >> updated. Maybe something similar to the help for VIRTUALIZATION to make >> it clear that enabling KVM on its own does nothing. > Making KVM a bool doesn't work well, keeping it a

Re: [PATCH 01/14] KVM: monolithic: x86: remove kvm.ko

2019-10-14 Thread Sean Christopherson
On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 06:31:44PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote: > On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 01:23:10PM -0400, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > This is the first commit of a patch series that aims to replace the > > modular kvm.ko kernel module with a monolithic kvm-intel/kvm-amd > > model. This chang

Re: [PATCH 01/14] KVM: monolithic: x86: remove kvm.ko

2019-10-14 Thread Sean Christopherson
On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 01:23:10PM -0400, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > This is the first commit of a patch series that aims to replace the > modular kvm.ko kernel module with a monolithic kvm-intel/kvm-amd > model. This change has the only possible cons of wasting some disk > space in /lib/modules/. T

[PATCH 01/14] KVM: monolithic: x86: remove kvm.ko

2019-09-28 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
This is the first commit of a patch series that aims to replace the modular kvm.ko kernel module with a monolithic kvm-intel/kvm-amd model. This change has the only possible cons of wasting some disk space in /lib/modules/. The pros are that it saves CPUS and some minor RAM which are more scarse re