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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] KVM: switch to get_user_pages_fast
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:06:30 +0300
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To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Convert gfn_to_pfn to use get_user_pages_fast, which can do lockless
> pagetable lookups on x86. Kernel compilation on 4-way guest is 3.7%
> faster on VMX.
>
> Hollis, can you fix kvmppc_mmu_map? gfn_to_page must not be called with
> mmap_sem held.
>
> Looks tricky:
> /* Must be called with mmap_sem locked for writing. */
> static void kvmppc_44x_shadow_release(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
> CC: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
>
>   

I'll wait until this is resolved, since I don't want to break ppc.

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