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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: virtualization@lists.osdl.org
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 05/24] Xen-paravirt_ops: Add pagetable accessors to pack and unpack pagetable entries
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:15:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702212315.12883.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070221205322.869165491@goop.org>

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 21:52, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Add a set of accessors to pack, unpack and modify page table entries
> (at all levels).  This allows a paravirt implementation to control the
> contents of pgd/pmd/pte entries.  For example, Xen uses this to
> convert the (pseudo-)physical address into a machine address when
> populating a pagetable entry, and converting back to pphys address
> when an entry is read.

Do you have some lmbench numbers before/after this change? 
iirc at least fork and exit do a lot of pte accesses in various forms.
If it's measurable it might be needed to patch those for the native case.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-21 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20070221205254.169835700@goop.org>
     [not found] ` <20070221205323.770169136@goop.org>
2007-02-21 22:10   ` [patch 17/24] Xen-paravirt_ops: avoid having a bad selector in %gs during context switch Andi Kleen
2007-02-21 22:14     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-02-21 22:16     ` Keir Fraser
2007-02-21 23:25     ` [Xen-devel] " Zachary Amsden
2007-02-21 23:29       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
     [not found] ` <20070221205322.869165491@goop.org>
2007-02-21 22:15   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-02-21 22:20     ` [patch 05/24] Xen-paravirt_ops: Add pagetable accessors to pack and unpack pagetable entries Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-02-21 23:20     ` Rusty Russell
2007-02-21 23:27       ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
     [not found] ` <20070221205323.842917348@goop.org>
2007-02-22  3:10   ` [patch 18/24] Xen-paravirt_ops: Some generic early printk & boot console fixups Andrew Morton
2007-02-22  5:48     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-02-22  8:33       ` Gerd Hoffmann

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