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From: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
To: "Emilio G. Cota" <cota@braap.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 3/5] cputlb: do not evict empty entries to the vtlb
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 07:49:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cbd29475-5161-b1d6-41dd-c2ce4e66336e@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181008232756.30704-4-cota@braap.org>

On 10/8/18 4:27 PM, Emilio G. Cota wrote:
> Currently we evict an entry to the victim TLB when it doesn't match
> the current address. But it could be that there's no match because
> the current entry is empty (i.e. all -1's, for instance via tlb_flush).
> Do not evict the entry to the vtlb in that case.
> 
> This change will help us keep track of the TLB's use rate.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
> ---
>  include/exec/cpu-all.h | 9 +++++++++
>  accel/tcg/cputlb.c     | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>


r~

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-09 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-08 23:27 [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 0/5] Dynamic TLB sizing Emilio G. Cota
2018-10-08 23:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 1/5] tcg: Add tlb_index and tlb_entry helpers Emilio G. Cota
2018-10-09 14:43   ` Alex Bennée
2018-10-08 23:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 2/5] (XXX) cputlb: introduce indirection for TLB size Emilio G. Cota
2018-10-08 23:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 3/5] cputlb: do not evict empty entries to the vtlb Emilio G. Cota
2018-10-09 14:45   ` Alex Bennée
2018-10-09 14:49   ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2018-10-08 23:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 4/5] cputlb: track TLB use rate Emilio G. Cota
2018-10-09 14:47   ` Alex Bennée
2018-10-08 23:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 5/5] cputlb: dynamically resize TLBs based on " Emilio G. Cota
2018-10-09 14:54   ` Alex Bennée
2018-10-09 16:03     ` Emilio G. Cota
2018-10-09 16:34       ` Alex Bennée
2018-10-09 12:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 0/5] Dynamic TLB sizing Alex Bennée
2018-10-09 14:38   ` Emilio G. Cota
2018-10-09 14:45     ` Alex Bennée
2018-10-09 15:19       ` Emilio G. Cota
2018-10-09 15:46         ` Alex Bennée

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