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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Takuya Yoshikawa <takuya.yoshikawa@gmail.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong.eric@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] KVM: MMU: fast page fault
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:41:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F8D6503.4040800@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120417213748.f3c4ae8d0056676fd33a47c5@gmail.com>

On 04/17/2012 03:37 PM, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:51:40 +0300
> Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > That's true with the write protect everything approach we use now.  But
> > it's not true with range-based write protection, where you issue
> > GET_DIRTY_LOG on a range of pages and only need to re-write-protect them.
> > 
> > (the motivation for that is to decrease the time between GET_DIRTY_LOG
> > and sending the page; as the time increases, the chances that the page
> > got re-dirtied go up).
>
> Thank you for explaining this.
>
> I was planning to give the userspace more freedom.
>
> Since there are many known algorithms to predict hot memory pages,
> the userspace will be able to tune the frequency of GET_DIRTY_LOG for such
> parts not to get too many faults repeatedly, if we can restrict the range
> of pages to protect.
>
> This is the fine-grained control.

Do you want per-page control, or just range-based?

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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2012-04-16 15:49                         ` [PATCH 00/13] KVM: MMU: fast page fault Takuya Yoshikawa
2012-04-16 16:02                           ` Avi Kivity
2012-04-17  6:26                           ` Xiao Guangrong
2012-04-17  7:51                             ` Avi Kivity
2012-04-17 12:37                               ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2012-04-17 12:41                                 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-04-17 14:54                                   ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2012-04-17 14:56                                     ` Avi Kivity
2012-04-18 13:42                                       ` Takuya Yoshikawa

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