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From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org,
	Jerone Young <jyoung5-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
	Hollis Blanchard
	<hollisb-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use a table to dispatch IO requests in kvmctl
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:47:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <470CD7EA.3040500@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <470CD6D3.8080805-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> QEMU uses an array for PIO but a table for MMIO.  I figured it would 
>>> be best to just use the same table.
>>
>> Or the same array?
>
> Indexed by the address or just sorted and searchable?  MMIO addresses 
> are rather sparse so the former seems like the only sane thing.  

I'm betting that a plain unsorted array will beat anything else with 
less than 50 entries.  Also that the difference will be swamped by 
vmexit costs and by the actual emulation costs.

> It also has to support subpage granularity.

My patent pending unsorted array supports that out of the box.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-10 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-09 21:40 [PATCH] Use a table to dispatch IO requests in kvmctl Anthony Liguori
     [not found] ` <11919660094186-git-send-email-aliguori-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-09 22:10   ` Anthony Liguori
2007-10-10  6:46   ` Hollis Blanchard
2007-10-10  7:14   ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]     ` <470C7BDC.7020106-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-10 13:24       ` Anthony Liguori
     [not found]         ` <470CD298.8060704-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-10 13:25           ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]             ` <470CD2CD.5090903-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-10 13:42               ` Anthony Liguori
     [not found]                 ` <470CD6D3.8080805-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-10 13:47                   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
     [not found]                     ` <470CD7EA.3040500-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-10 13:59                       ` Anthony Liguori

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