Keynote Session: KVM Status Update
summary
KVM sees ~2500 commits this cycle with ~200 backported to stable and activity up ~10% year over year; Google contributes ~1000 extra commits. RISC-V support lands upstream in 5.16 and selftests account for ~20% of commits. New or recently merged items include continuous TSC over migration, Zen Event Channel delivery, eager page‑table splitting for faster migration, scalable MMU on the feature branch, AMD nested‑virt and AMX dynamic save states, ARM precise event‑based sampling and Apple M1 PMU support, and s390 secure‑guest device and interrupt virtualization.
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- 0:00Start
- 1:04September 2021-September 2022
- 3:33Commits by architecture since 5.15-rc1
- 4:48Use Linux library code more
- 5:36x86 highlights
- 7:45x86 hardware features - AMD
- 8:34x86 hardware features - Intel
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