From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi124@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Page Eviction Algorithm
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:44:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CC937EC.9010000@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=GfK5RGq=XLZc-q=L9Q5tZQuq4ePy8BeYWp5Cu@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/26/2010 03:31 PM, Prasad Joshi wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Avi Kivity<avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 10/26/2010 12:42 PM, Prasad Joshi wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot for your reply.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Avi Kivity<avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> > On 10/26/2010 11:19 AM, Prasad Joshi wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi All,
> >> >>
> >> >> I was just going over TODO list on KVM page. In MMU related TODO I saw
> >> >> only page eviction algorithm currently implemented is FIFO.
> >> >>
> >> >> Is it really the case?
> >> >
> >> > Yes.
> >> >
> >> >> If yes I would like to work on it. Can someone
> >> >> let me know the place where the FIFO code is implemented?
> >> >
> >> > Look at the code that touches mmu_active_list.
> >> >
> >> > FWIW improving the algorithm is not critically important. It's rare
> >> > that
> >> > mmu shadow pages need to be evicted.
> >>
> >> I would be doing a University project on Virtualization. I would like
> >> to work on Linux kernel and KVM. I was looking over the TODO list on
> >> KVM wiki.
> >>
> >> Can you please suggest me something that would add value to KVM?
> >>
> >
> > O(1) write protection (on the TODO page) is interesting and important. It's
> > difficult, so you may want to start with O(1) invalidation.
>
> I am not sure if I can understand what exactly is a MMU invalidation.
> Is it cache invalidation or TLB invalidation? Can you please
> elaborate. I am really sorry if I am asking a silly question.
Invalidation of all shadow page tables. The current code which does
this is in kvm_mmu_zap_all().
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-28 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-26 9:19 Page Eviction Algorithm Prasad Joshi
2010-10-26 10:31 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-26 10:42 ` Prasad Joshi
2010-10-26 13:07 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-26 13:31 ` Prasad Joshi
2010-10-26 15:08 ` Prasad Joshi
2010-10-28 8:45 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-28 13:03 ` Prasad Joshi
2010-10-28 8:44 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
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