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From: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/10] KVM MMU: Move invlpg code out of paging_tmpl.h
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:21:48 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BD19EEC.1030205@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BD187CB.5090701@redhat.com>



Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 04/23/2010 02:27 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 04/22/2010 09:12 AM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
>>> Using '!sp->role.cr4_pae' replaces 'PTTYPE == 32' and using
>>> 'pte_size = sp->role.cr4_pae ? 8 : 4' replaces sizeof(pt_element_t)
>>>
>>> Then no need compile twice for this code
>>>
>> I think we should keep it in - kvm_mmu_pte_write() calls back to
>> FNAME(update_pte), we could make the call directly from here speed
>> things up, since we already have the spte and don't need to look it up.
>>
> 
> I see you do this in patches 9, 10 - but is it possible to use
> update_pte directly?  I think we'll need to make
> guess_page_from_pte_write() part of paging_tmpl.h (in general anything
> that depends on pte size is better off in paging_tmpl.h).
> 

OK, i'll keep invlpg code in paging_tmpl.h and directly call FNAME(update_pte).

But, i don't see mmu_guess_page_from_pte_write() code depends on pte size. :-(

Xiao

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-23 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4BCFE3D5.5070105@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-04-22  6:12 ` [PATCH 1/10] KVM MMU: fix for calculating gpa in invlpg code Xiao Guangrong
2010-04-23 11:23   ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-23 12:05     ` Xiao Guangrong
2010-04-23 12:11       ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-22  6:12 ` [PATCH 2/10] KVM MMU: convert mmu tracepoints Xiao Guangrong
2010-04-22  6:12 ` [PATCH 3/10] KVM MMU: move unsync/sync tracpoints to proper place Xiao Guangrong
2010-04-22  6:12 ` [PATCH 4/10] KVM MMU: Move invlpg code out of paging_tmpl.h Xiao Guangrong
2010-04-23 11:27   ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-23 11:43     ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-23 13:21       ` Xiao Guangrong [this message]
2010-04-23 13:27         ` Avi Kivity

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