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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Huge TLB performance improvement
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 20:42:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200611122042.59445.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061112011035.GB21771@nevyn.them.org>

> A patch which flushes up to 1/32nd of the jump buffer indiscriminately
> cuts it to 1:11-1:13.
>
> Here's that last patch.  It changes the hash function so that entries
> from a particular page are always grouped together in tb_jmp_cache,
> then finds the possibly two affected ranges and memsets them clear.
> Thoughts?  Is this acceptable, where else should it be tested besides
> MIPS?  I haven't fine-tuned the numbers; it currently allows for max 64
> cached jump targets per target page, but that could be made higher or
> lower.

I've applied this patch.  It seems a reasonable compromise solution.

I tested a couple of different x86 guests, and couldn't measure any 
significant difference in performance.

Paul

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-12 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-06 14:59 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Huge TLB performance improvement Thiemo Seufer
2006-11-05 15:38 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-12  1:10   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-12 11:49     ` Laurent Desnogues
2006-11-12 13:52       ` Thiemo Seufer
2006-11-12 14:08       ` Paul Brook
2006-11-12 14:29         ` Thiemo Seufer
2006-11-12 14:44           ` Paul Brook
2006-11-12 15:07             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-12 15:24               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-12 15:26             ` Thiemo Seufer
2006-11-12 16:56           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-12 17:49             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-12 18:02             ` Dirk Behme
2006-11-12 22:13               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-11-12 20:42     ` Paul Brook [this message]

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