Re: [PATCH 00/13] KVM: MMU: fast page fault

Avi Kivity
2012-04-11T09:15:19Z

On 04/11/2012 04:47 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 01:04:13PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > On 04/09/2012 10:46 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > > Perhaps the mmu_lock hold times by get_dirty are a large component here?
> >
> > That's my concern, because it affects the scaling of migration for wider
> > guests.
> >
> > > If that can be alleviated, not only RO->RW faults benefit.
> >
> > Those are the most common types of faults on modern hardware, no?
>
> Depends on your workload, of course. If there is memory pressure,
> 0->PRESENT might be very frequent. My point is that reduction of
> mmu_lock contention is a good thing overall.
>

Agreed.

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