From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v7 00/10] KVM: MMU: fast page fault
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:56:29 +0800
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Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Changlog:
- always atomicly update the spte if it can be updated out of mmu-lock
- rename spte_can_be_writable() to spte_is_locklessly_modifiable()
- cleanup and comment spte_write_protect()

Performance result:
(The benchmark can be found at: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg73011.html)

                               before            after
Run 10 times, Avg time:      538233957 ns.      249809853 ns. +53.6%