Re: [PATCH] KVM: mmu: honor global bit on huge pages

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

Renato S. Yamane wrote:
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> Em 04-12-2006 12:57, Avi Kivity escreveu:
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>> The kvm mmu attempts to cache global translations, however it misses on
>> global huge page translation (which is what most global pages are).
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>> By caching global huge page translations, boot time of fc5 i386 on i386
>> is reduced from ~35 seconds to ~24 seconds.
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> I try use this patch in Kernel 2.6.19-git5, but I receive an error message:
>
> /linux-2.6.19# patch -p1 < /home/yamane/Desktop/kernel/kvm.patch
> can't find file to patch at input line 3
> Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
> The text leading up to this was:
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> |--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
> |+++ linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
> - --------------------------
> File to patch:
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> Whats wrong? :-(
>   

This patch is for kvm, which lives in the -mm kernel.  Apply the latest 
-mm patch first.


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