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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>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Takuya Yoshikawa 2012-03-21 23:49:39 +09:00 committed by Avi Kivity
parent c36fc04ef5
commit 220f773a00
1 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -135,8 +135,6 @@ module_param(dbg, bool, 0644);
#define PT64_PERM_MASK (PT_PRESENT_MASK | PT_WRITABLE_MASK | PT_USER_MASK \
| PT64_NX_MASK)
#define PTE_LIST_EXT 4
#define ACC_EXEC_MASK 1
#define ACC_WRITE_MASK PT_WRITABLE_MASK
#define ACC_USER_MASK PT_USER_MASK
@ -151,6 +149,9 @@ module_param(dbg, bool, 0644);
#define SHADOW_PT_INDEX(addr, level) PT64_INDEX(addr, level)
/* make pte_list_desc fit well in cache line */
#define PTE_LIST_EXT 3
struct pte_list_desc {
u64 *sptes[PTE_LIST_EXT];
struct pte_list_desc *more;