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kvm-3.20-16557bada · ·
Fairly small update, but there are some interesting new features. Common: Optional support for adding a small amount of polling on each HLT instruction executed in the guest (or equivalent for other architectures). This can improve latency up to 50% on some scenarios (e.g. O_DSYNC writes or TCP_RR netperf tests). This also has to be enabled manually for now, but the plan is to auto-tune this in the future. ARM/ARM64: the highlights are support for GICv3 emulation and dirty page tracking s390: several optimizations and bugfixes. Also a first: a feature exposed by KVM (UUID and long guest name in /proc/sysinfo) before it is available in IBM's hypervisor! :) MIPS: Bugfixes. x86: Support for PML (page modification logging, a new feature in Broadwell Xeons that speeds up dirty page tracking), nested virtualization improvements (nested APICv---a nice optimization), usual round of emulation fixes. There is also a new option to reduce latency of the TSC deadline timer in the guest; this needs to be tuned manually. Some commits are common between this pull and Catalin's; I see you have already included his tree. ARM has other conflicts where functions are added in the same place by 3.19-rc and 3.20 patches. These are not large though, and entirely within KVM.
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drm-intel-next-2015-01-301293eaa3 · ·
- chv rps improvements from Ville - atomic state handling prep work from Ander - execlist request tracking refactoring from Nick Hoath - forcewake code consolidation from Chris&Mika - fastboot plane config refactoring and skl support from Damien - some more skl pm patches all over (Damien) - refactor dsi code to use drm dsi helpers and drm_panel infrastructure (Jani) - first cut at experimental atomic plane updates (Matt Roper) - piles of smaller things all over, as usual
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iommu-fixes-v3.19-rc635577079 · ·
IOMMU Fixes for Linux v3.19-rc6 Two small fixes for the Tegra GART IOMMU driver: * Provide a .map_sg function for iommu_ops * Do not register Tegra GART driver as a workaround because of issues with it when used from DRM code