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authorTakuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp>2012-03-21 23:49:39 +0900
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2012-04-08 16:08:25 +0300
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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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