From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Antonio Vargas <windenntw@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/13] KVM: vcpu execution loop
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:11:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <453D2FFA.3040506@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <69304d110610231402k7913df63l7e493f95b5d92911@mail.gmail.com>
Antonio Vargas wrote:
>>
>> I could do that, but I feel that's more brittle. I might need more (or
>> other) fields later on. It will also cost me more pushes on the stack
>> (no real performance or space impact, just C64-era frugality).
>
> maybe thats the mindsent needed to make these virtual cpu patches
> without eating away all the cpu power with more than needed
> abstractions ;)
>
Unfortunately not. Saving a cycle or two doesn't help when a vm exit
costs thousands of cycles, and worse, kills your tlb.
The key is eliminating unnecessary exits. I have plans for massively
optimizing the mmu virtualization, and the next AMD core will do that in
hardware (look for a "nested page tables" sticker before you buy).
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-23 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-23 13:28 [PATCH 0/7] KVM: Kernel-based Virtual Machine (v2) Avi Kivity
2006-10-23 13:29 ` [PATCH 1/13] KVM: userspace interface Avi Kivity
2006-10-24 12:51 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-10-24 12:56 ` Avi Kivity
2006-10-24 12:59 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-10-23 13:29 ` [PATCH 2/13] KVM: Intel virtual mode extensions definitions Avi Kivity
2006-10-23 13:30 ` [PATCH 3/13] KVM: kvm data structures Avi Kivity
2006-10-23 13:30 ` [PATCH 4/13] KVM: random accessors and constants Avi Kivity
2006-10-23 13:30 ` [PATCH 5/13] KVM: virtualization infrastructure Avi Kivity
2006-10-23 19:35 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-23 20:28 ` Avi Kivity
2006-10-23 20:35 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-23 20:39 ` Avi Kivity
2006-10-24 12:03 ` Avi Kivity
2006-10-24 5:19 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-24 13:43 ` [PATCH] x86: Extract segment descriptor definitions for use outside of x86_64 Avi Kivity
2006-10-24 14:10 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-23 13:30 ` [PATCH 6/13] KVM: memory slot management Avi Kivity
2006-10-23 13:30 ` [PATCH 7/13] KVM: vcpu creation and maintenance Avi Kivity
2006-10-23 13:30 ` [PATCH 8/13] KVM: vcpu execution loop Avi Kivity
[not found] ` <200610232141.45802.arnd@arndb.de>
2006-10-23 20:16 ` Avi Kivity
2006-10-23 20:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-23 20:37 ` Avi Kivity
2006-10-23 21:02 ` Antonio Vargas
2006-10-23 21:11 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2006-10-23 22:08 ` Antonio Vargas
2006-10-23 22:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-23 13:31 ` [PATCH 9/13] KVM: define exit handlers Avi Kivity
2006-10-24 1:05 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-10-24 7:23 ` Avi Kivity
2006-10-23 13:31 ` [PATCH 10/13] KVM: less common " Avi Kivity
2006-10-23 13:31 ` [PATCH 11/13] KVM: mmu Avi Kivity
2006-10-23 13:31 ` [PATCH 12/13] KVM: x86 emulator Avi Kivity
2006-10-23 13:31 ` [PATCH 13/13] KVM: plumbing Avi Kivity
2006-10-23 13:44 ` [PATCH 0/7] KVM: Kernel-based Virtual Machine (v2) Avi Kivity
2006-10-23 15:38 ` [PATCH 0/13] KVM: qemu patch Avi Kivity
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-26 17:19 [PATCH 0/13] KVM: Kernel-based Virtual Machine (v3) Avi Kivity
2006-10-26 17:29 ` [PATCH 8/13] KVM: vcpu execution loop Avi Kivity
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