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author | Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp> | 2012-03-21 23:49:39 +0900 |
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committer | Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> | 2012-04-08 16:08:25 +0300 |
commit | 220f773a0013bf6fe2eefd9718ac7471f368fd8e (patch) | |
tree | a4062100aff69a887a3636743fa407d440d7c512 /CREDITS | |
parent | c36fc04ef558c95cff46a8c89d2f804f217335f5 (diff) | |
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KVM: MMU: Make pte_list_desc fit cache lines well
We have PTE_LIST_EXT + 1 pointers in this structure and these 40/20
bytes do not fit cache lines well. Furthermore, some allocators may
use 64/32-byte objects for the pte_list_desc cache.
This patch solves this problem by changing PTE_LIST_EXT from 4 to 3.
For shadow paging, the new size is still large enough to hold both the
kernel and process mappings for usual anonymous pages. For file
mappings, there may be a slight change in the cache usage.
Note: with EPT/NPT we almost always have a single spte in each reverse
mapping and we will not see any change by this.
Signed-off-by: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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