From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: KVM: MMU: rmap_write_protect() hugepage iteration bug
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:30:45 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <484B8AA5.4040202@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080608044853.GA1408@dmt.cnet>
Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> How bad you think restarting is? Unless there are workloads with very
> large hugepage chains most of the data should be cached in L1. Also the
> fact that a 4K page has just been shadowed inside a large region makes
> it unlikely for the same chain to be examined again soon.
>
Non-pae guests will have a chain entry for every mm_struct, since the
large ptes reside in the pgd and that is replicated for every
mm_struct. So it's easy to have very long chains.
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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-08 7:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-08 0:27 KVM: MMU: rmap_write_protect() hugepage iteration bug Marcelo Tosatti
2008-06-08 1:54 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-06-08 4:48 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-06-08 7:30 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-06-08 8:03 ` Avi Kivity
2008-06-08 8:04 ` Avi Kivity
2008-06-08 18:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-06-08 19:52 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-06-08 20:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-06-09 0:20 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-06-09 0:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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